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Fluid Mechanics

20 December 2023

Fluid mechanics is an enabling technology that underpins many industrial sectors, and its applications are fundamental to addressing a wide range of societal challenges. It is central to understanding our changing climate and for developing renewable energy technologies. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering fluid mechanics research is concerned with a broad range of topics including aerodynamics, coatings and thin-film flow, spray and particle distribution, flows in heat transfer, biomedical and biological flows, flow in porous media, and drug delivery

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Research Theme Members

Areas of Expertise

Biofluidics, Flow in porous media, Convection heat transfer

Research Interests

Drug delivery, Mathematical simulation, Compressible flow

Areas of Expertise

Aerodynamics, Fluid dynamics, Porous media fluid mechanics

Research Interests

Aerospace propulsion, Plasma-based electric propulsion, High-speed flows

Areas of Expertise

Particle size measurement, Motion of particles and droplets in air, Measurement of fluid velocity fields, Numerical simulation of flow (CFD), Wind tunnel measurements, Particle image velocimetry (PIV), Flow imaging

Research Interests

Spray and particle distribution from aircraft (especially multirotor UAVs and helicopters), Insect flight aerodynamics, Seed dispersion aerodynamics

Areas of Expertise

Experiment, CFD and theoretical modelling

Research Interests

Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Aeroacoustics, Thermoacoustics

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