Alumni Association
Professor John Vassilicos (Imperial College London)
20 October 2011
Joint Research Project
Project title: A New Turbulence Created by Fractal Forcing and its Application to Innovative Industrial Mixer
Japanese Lead Scientist: Professor Yasuhiko Sakai Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
UK Counterpart: Professor John Vassilicos Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London
Project Duration: 2010 to 2012
Description of project
After more than a century of exhaustive research on the aerodynamics and hydrodynamics of geometrically simple shapes, it is natural to expect much of the future in fluid mechanics to lie in the aerodynamics and hydrodynamics of geometrically complex, and thereby multiscale, shapes. There has of course been work over the past decades on how to model and simulate complex turbulent flows, but the emphasis here is on working out the rules for the design of multiscale objects so as to obtain desired flow effects beneficial for particular applications.This UK-Japan bilateral project aims to investigate turbulent flows generated/designed in multiscale/fractal ways via two workshops. Below is a list of applications discussed in the first UK-Japan bilateral workshop (on 28-29 March 2011).
/Fractal mixers/ Fractal combustors/ fractal spoilers and airbreaks/ Fractal wind breakers and fractal fences
The second workshop will be held in March 2012.
※Click here to view the full report (pdf).
