Fluid Dynamics Research Group
One of the largest groups of its kind in the UK, we work on fundamental and applied research in computational and experimental fluid mechanics.
Subject areas extend from aerodynamics over geophysical flows to granular and particle-laden flows. Some of our previous and current research projects include the design of car bodies and aircraft wings; modelling air flow within and around buildings or the effectiveness of fans cooling electronic components; investigating the flow of dog foods through pipes during production or the cooling system in a car engine. We simulate the dispersal of pollutants in river estuaries; model oceanographic and atmospheric flows and we study the behaviour of emulsions and of mixtures of powders and liquids with applications in the food or the pharmaceutical industries. The list is endless. At Warwick we even model how dolphins swim.
Problems involving the dynamics of fluids are encountered in engineering and science in a vast number of different fundamental and applied contexts. Blood flows control living organisms, fuel injection affects engines, flow around racing cars and aeroplanes determines their performance characteristics, mixing of fluids and particles or powders is ubiquitous in the food and pharmaceutical industries, flows in the ocean and the atmosphere affect our weather and the climate. The examples are endless! The Fluid Dynamics Research Group is subdivided into five interest groups.
