Research themes

Professor Hector Iacovides

The investigation of the effects of strong curvature, artificial rib roughness and rotation, on the turbulent flow and thermal development in cooling passages.
The investigation of the effects of rotation on turbulent multiple impingement cooling.
The investigation of turbulent steady and unsteady flows in rotating cavities.

The development of low-Reynolds-number second-moment closures.
The development of non-linear effective-viscosity models, suitable for the computation of wall heat transfer in re-circulating flows.
The development of advanced wall functions for re-circulating, impinging and mixed-convection flows.
The computation of flow and heat transfer over surfaces with fine-grain roughness, using advanced, analytical wall-functions.
The computation of convective heat transfer through rotating internal passages that include the effects of strong curvature and artificial roughness.
The computation of steady and unsteady turbulent flows through rotating cavities.
The computation of unsteady, external, re-circulating flows.
The computation of turbulent mixed and natural convection cooling flows, relevant to nuclear reactor safety.

Non-Equilibrium and Environmental Flows:
- Unsteady turbulent pipe flows;
- Strain parameter developments;
- Fully-pulsed and synthetic jet flows;
- Spectral approaches to non-equilibrium flows; Environmental flows.
Mixed Convection and Power Plant Thermal Hydraulics:
- Mixed convection heat transfer;
- Laminar flow through porous insulation;
- Pressurised Water Reactor thermal hydraulics.

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