Fluids and Modelling
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The Challenges
Problems involving the dynamics of fluids, fire and other mobile substances 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.
Our Research
Several member of the group work on developing the underpinning science and enabling methodology for a diverse range of fluid flows in nature and technology. These flows span scales (from atmospheric to the nanoscale), phenomena (from cavitation to combustion), constituents (from granular to rarefied), biology (from pulmonary air to microvascular blood) and engineering application (from turbulent-drag reduction to explosion hazard detection). We also use modelling for a wide-range of processes including the progression of fire, chemomechanical materials, and changes in nano-crystalline structures.
Experimental capabilities include: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA), microfluidic analysis, small to large-scale rotating-tank facilities, and Ultrasonic Velocity Profiling (UVP).
Computational expertise includes: high performance computing (MPI/OpenMP), Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS), Engineering Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), open-source software (openFOAM, mdFOAM, FireFOAM), and multi-scale modelling and simulation.
The group is associated by collaboration with a number of laboratories and centres. In particular, the Fluid Dynamics Research Centre, which connects fluids research activity across multiple departments in Warwick and Coventry University.
Associated Centres
The Centre for Scientific Computing
Micro and Nano Flows for Engineering
Warwick FIRE
| The Fluids and Modelling group is part of the Mechanical and Process Stream |