Research project

B Ganapathisubramani - Turbulent flow over multi scale heterogeneous surfaces

Research groups:

Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Group
Lead researcher:

Professor Bharath Ganapathisubramani
Other researchers:

Dr Christina Vanderwel
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Bharath Ganapathisubramani

Professor of Experimental Fluid Mechani

Connect with Bharath

Email: G.Bharath@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Christina Vanderwel BSc, MASc, PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Turbulence Measurements and Modelling
Building Aerodynamics and Urban Air Pollution

Connect with Christina

Email: C.M.Vanderwel@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Group

Our group undertakes research on fundamental fluid dynamics, applied aerodynamics, flow control, flight dynamics and aeroacoustics.

Research outputs

Assessment of aerodynamic roughness parameters of turbulent boundary layers over barnacle-covered surfaces

Takfarinas Medjnoun, Manuel Amaro Matoso Aguiar Ferreira, Ralf Reinartz, Bagus Nugroho, Jason Monty, Nicholas Hutchins & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2023, Experiments in Fluids, 64(11)

DOI: 10.1007/s00348-023-03709-5

Type: article

Scalar transport in flow past finite circular patches of tall roughness

Dea D. Wangsawijaya, Claudia Nicolai & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2023, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 102(8)

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2023.109167

Type: article

Defining an equivalent homogeneous roughness length for turbulent boundary layers developing over patchy or heterogeneous surfaces

N. Hutchins, B. Ganapathisubramani, M.P. Schultz & D.I. Pullin, 2022, Ocean Engineering, 271

DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.113454

Type: article

Experimental observations on turbulent boundary layers subjected to a step-change in surface roughness

Melika Gul & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2022.608

Type: article

Time-averaged velocity and scalar fields of the flow over and around a group of cylinders: a model experiment for canopy flows

Dea Daniella Wangsawijaya, Claudia Nicolai & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2022, Flow, 2

DOI: 10.1017/flo.2022.2

Type: article