Research

Open positions:

• PhD Studentship - Convective heat transfer in turbulent boundary layers. For more information please visit the following Link This position has been filled. 

• PhD Studentship (Competitive funding, UK and overseas candidates are eligible) - Using physics-informed neural networks and data assimilation to predict and improve urban air quality Link This position has been filled.

• Applications from highly-motivated UK students with a 1st-class degree are encouraged to contact me about PhD opportunities  

Current Topics:

• Aerodynamics of rigid and flexible wings subject to free-stream turbulence

• Modelling and measurements of turbulent flows over rough walls

• Reconstruction of time-averaged flows using data-assimilation and physics-informed neural networks (PINNs)

• Reduced-order modelling of turbulent flows with passive scalars 

• Resolvent-based modelling 

Past Topics:

• Eddy viscosity modelling in resolvent analysis 

• Energy transfer predictions in wall-bounded and spatially-developing flows using resolvent analysis

• Properties of superhydrophobic wires

• Reconstruction of flows using data assimilation and resolvent analysis 

Current funding:

• US Air Force Office of Scientific Research: Modelling turbulence over a step change of roughness (with Professor B. Ganapathisubramani)

• Royal Society: Please mind the gap: an equations-driven approach to characterise the aerodynamics of complex vehicles

• EPSRC: Augmenting flow simulations with experimental data to improve aerodynamic efficiency

Past funding:

• University of Melbourne Department of Mechanical Engineering Early Career Researcher Award

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (declined to accept NSF GRF)