
Research themes
Experimental research interest
- 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.
Computational research interests
- 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.
- Advanced RANS models and near-wall treatments
- Aerodynamics
- Heat-transfer
- Natural and mixed convection
- Unsteady flows
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