Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives Awareness of the main effects of turbulence in flows of engineering importance, and the basic tools to describe and in some cases quantify these effects.
Synopsis Time series analysis, stochastics, principles of data collection, instrumentation. Transition to turbulent flow, structure of the turbulent boundary layer. Averaging, Reynolds stresses, turbulent energy equation, turbulence spectrum, energy production and decay, velocity and length scales. Application to structural vibration: vortex shedding, turbulence effects on drag forces. Application to diffusion: mass transport, diffusion coefficients, dispersion, measurement, modelling. Current areas of research: vortex interactions, vorticity generation and transport, numerical modelling.
Assessment Written: 15% + Examinations (2 hours): 70% + Laboratory work: 15%