Experimental study of multibody flows

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)
Energy Efficiency(Transport)
Not Energy Related
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Oil and gas combustion)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Applied Mathematics)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Dr I Eames
Mechanical Engineering
University College London

Standard

EPSRC

12 October 2005

11 January 2008

27 months

£163,457

Process engineering

London

Engineering science: flow -- Process Environment and Sustainability

Dr I Eames, Mechanical Engineering, University College London

Lord J Hunt of Chesterton, Physics and Astronomy, University College London
Professor RR Simons, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London

A generic feature of most engineering flows is the presence of a complex rigid or deformable geometry, owing to the presence of multiple bodies (eg in the urban terrain), bubbles or droplets (in multiphase flows), cylinders (in boiler tube arrays). This proposal is directed towards understanding the generic problem of how turbulent and laminar wakes interact with each other and with downstream bodies in this broad class of problems. By drawing together the expertise of mechanical and civil engineers, and mathematicians, an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental team propose to examine the fundamental problem of how wakes interact and vorticity is cancelled out through this interaction, some details of which have only recently been recognized and studied. The proposal is novel because it develops a new framework for interpreting and thence extending the experimental measurements and numerical calculations of the flow around groups of bodies. The proposed research should lead to the development of new analytical models to describe turbulent wake interactions. The deliverables have immediate implications for improving CFD modeling, for 2-phase flows and flows through wind turbines

21/03/12