Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160102279
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Turbulent flow over surfaces with spatially varying roughness. This project aims to improve understanding of the effect of spatial roughness transitions on turbulent flows. Fluids flowing over non-smooth surfaces influence our daily lives, such as water moving through a pipe, wind blowing over the Earth's surface or aircraft moving through air. The presence of surface roughness profoundly influences these flows. Though engineers have learnt to deal effectively with evenly distributed roughness, this is seldom encountered in reality. Rather, there are abrupt changes in roughness, for example at the edges of wind-farms or at rivets on aircraft. This project aims to investigate these important, but little understood, turbulent flows. Potential benefits include improved simulation, more efficient vehicle design and improved atmospheric and climate models.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2016
End Date: 12-2019
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $685,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Turbulent Flows | Interdisciplinary Engineering |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Management of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transport Activities | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Atmospheric Processes and Dynamics
