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EPSRC Reference: EP/C531019/1
Title: Visiting Fellowship: Sheared laminar wakes
Principal Investigator: Eames, Professor I
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Department: Mechanical Engineering
Organisation: UCL
Scheme: Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC
Starts: 01 March 2005 Ends: 28 February 2007 Value (£): 4,574
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Multiphase Flow
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A common feature of most engineering flows (such as the flow past turbine blades, boiler tubes, multiphase flows), is the complex coupling between turbulent wakes (generated by fixed or moving bodies) and the forces acting on the bodies. In the presence of a shear flow, the wake vorticity diffuses asymmetrically in the far field leading to a reduction in the volume flux in the wake and inducing a net circulation in the flow. Numerical calculations by Kurase & Komori (1999) indicate that the lift coefficient is negative, in contrast to the case of Re-1 and inviscio flows where the lift coefficient is positive. The aim of this proposal is to calculate within an analytical framework the induced flow and force, to reconcile the change in sign of the lift coefficient at high Re.
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