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Research project

Surface-specific Moody-diagrams: A new paradigm to predict drag penalty of realistic rough surfaces with applications to maritime transport

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Bharath Ganapathisubramani

Professor of Experimental Fluid Mechani
Connect with Bharath

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Neil Sandham

Professor of Aerospace Engineering

Research interests

  • Transonic aerodynamics of wings
  • Hypersonic flows with transition to turbulence
  • Flow over rough surfaces
Connect with Neil

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Assessment of aerodynamic roughness parameters of turbulent boundary layers over barnacle-covered surfaces
Takfarinas Medjnoun, Manuel Amaro Matoso Aguiar Ferreira, Ralf Reinartz, Bagus Nugroho, Jason Monty, Nicholas Hutchins & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2023, Experiments in Fluids, 64(11)
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-023-03709-5
Type: article
Numerical study of Fourier-filtered rough surfaces
Felipe Alves Portela, Angela Busse & Neil Sandham, 2021, Physical Review Fluids, 6(8)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.084606
Type: article
Revisiting rough-wall turbulent boundary layers over sand-grain roughness
Melika Gul & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 911, A26
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.1004
Type: article
A DNS/URANS approach for simulating rough-wall turbulent flows
Felipe Alves Portela & Neil Sandham, 2020, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2020.108627
Type: article
PIV-based pressure estimation in the canopy of urban-like roughness
Manuel Amaro Matoso Aguiar Ferreira & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2020, Experiments in Fluids, 61(70)
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-020-2904-1
Type: article