Specialist research areas
- Complex Fluids:
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Granular media
- collapses, segregation, Richtmyer-Meshkov instability, fluid interactions
- Convection:
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Buoyancy-driven instability
- Rayleigh-Taylor instability; Richtmyer-Meshkov instability
Plumes/thermals
- plume properties, applications to atmospheric convection
Taylor-Couette flow
- stratified Taylor-Couette flow
- Drops and Bubbles:
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Breakup/coalescence
- dissolved air flotation; bubble growth
- Geophysical Flows:
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Baroclinic flows
- rotating hydraulics, eddies, baroclinic instability
Coastal engineering
- flushing of embayments
Geostrophic turbulence
- turbulence in rotating, stratified fluids
Gravity currents
- effects of geometry, stratification, suspended particles, topography
Hydraulic control
- effects of rotation, multi-layer
Internal waves
- lee waves, internal wave attractors, interaction with shear layers, parametric subharmonic instability
Mixing and dispersion
- mixing efficiency, identification of mixing events, mixing mechanisms
Rotating flows
- rotating turbulence, rotating plumes, rotating hydraulics
Sediment transport
- turbidity currents; re-suspension
Stratified flows
- turbulence and mixing
Waves in rotating fluids
- role of inertial waves in rotating turbulence
- Interfacial Flows:
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Fingering instability
- in rapidly rotating systems
Thin films
- reactions in rapidly rotating systems; decontamination
- Mixing:
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Turbulent mixing
- stratified turbulence and mixing efficiency
- Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows:
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Particle/fluid flow
- re-suspension; bubble-floc interactions; droplet-granular material interaction
- Turbulent Flows:
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Rotating turbulence
- decay; role of inertial waves
Shear layer turbulence
- stratified shear flows, inclined duct experiments
Stratified turbulence
- source-sink driven turbulence, inclined duct and mixing box experiments
Turbulent convection
- plumes, thermals, jets and fountains
Wave-turbulence interactions
- internal wave generation by turbulence
- Vortex Flows:
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Vortex interactions
- vortex ring interaction with stratification; interaction with particle beds
- Waves/Free-surface Flows:
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Faraday waves
- reactive flows and materials processing