Research
Environmental & Industrial Fluid Mechanics Group
The central goal is to advance fundamental knowledge of flow phenomena occurring in the environment and in industrial applications in order to develop better understanding and predictive tools for enhanced design and management of natural and engineered fluid systems. Its main research areas include:
- Hydrodynamics of open-channel flows and benthic boundary layers over smooth and rough, pervious and impervious beds with particular focus on turbulence structure, hydraulic resistance, transport processes, surface-subsurface flow interactions, sediment dynamics, and morphodynamics.
- Coastal hydraulics including oscillatory boundary layer flow, sediment transport processes and modelling, swash hydrodynamics and sediment transport, coastal monitoring, sea wave interaction with structures, turbulent buoyant jets, and large-scale environmental flows such as internal solitary waves in stratified fluids and estuarial hydrodynamics.
- Hydrodynamics of aquatic ecosystems dealing with flow-organism interactions in water flows with special focus on relevant transport processes and mutual physical impacts occurring in a range of scales from the sub-organism scale to the organism patch mosaic scale (comparable to the flow width).
- Internal hydraulics including pipe leakage and unsteady pipe friction, unsteady turbulent flow, buoyancy-induced flow and heat transfer, applications for oil and gas industry, and biomedical engineering.