About
John Lawson is a Lecturer in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
John specialises in experimental fluid mechanics, turbulence and particle laden flows. His work unites theory and numerical simulations with the development and application of optical flow diagnostics to explore, quantify and model turbulent flows.
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SESA6070: Experimental Methods for Aerodynamics (Module Lead)
FEEG1003: Thermofluids (Tutor)
I advertise a new range of 3rd year Individual Projects and Masters level projects each year. If you have an idea for a project, I am happy to discuss supervising it. Examples of prospective projects for this year are:
- Microfluidic oscillators for unsteady jet propulsion
- Microfluidic oscillators for economical wastewater treatment
- Thrust augmentation of unsteady jet propulsion (CFD or experimental)
- Bio-inspired underwater propulsion system
- Controlling drag and mixing in Taylor-Couette flow
- Particle tracking for large-scale flows with a gigapixel camera array
- Building a helium filled soap bubble generator for large-scale aerodynamics
- Aerodynamic interactions of surface roughness
- Developing a new sensor to measure surface pressure and skin friction
- Shape-tunable wax microparticle synthesis with microfluidics
- Building a piezoelectric droplet cannon
- Does turbulence help the ocean store carbon?
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Biography
2021-: Lecturer, University of Southampton
2019-2021: Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Southampton
2018-2019: Research Fellow, Ganapathisubramani Group, University of Southampton
2015-2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Bodenschatz Group, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Germany
2011-2015: PhD in Engineering, “A scanning PIV study of homogeneous turbulence at the dissipation scale”, University of Cambridge, UK
2007-2011: MEng (Hons.) in Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
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