The research in the UBC-Okanagan CFD Lab consists of the following themes. Within these broad themes are current or future research interests:
Turbomachinery aerodynamics
- Instability and transition of planar free shear layers
- Noise reduction in bypass turbofan engines
- Laminar-to-turbulent transition in turbomachinery
Wind energy
- Wind turbine aerodynamics
- Wind farm blockage
- Wind farm wake modelling
- Wake recovery and wake/wake interactions between neighbouring farms
- Turbine icing
Healthy and efficient buildings
- Computational modelling of transition under conditions of natural convection
- Dispersion of pollutants in indoor environments
Hydrogen energy systems
- Solid-state hydrogen storage
- Cryogenic liquid hydrogen modelling
- Hydrogen blending into natural gas
- Hydrogen-blended natural gas detonation/flammability
Human/atmosphere interactions
- Simulation of accidental gas release
- Modelling the dispersion of forest-fire smoke
- Dispersion of gases and particles in urban and agricultural environments
Biomedical computation
- Turbulence-resolving simulations of heart valves, aneurysms
- Respiration and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Airborne-disease transmission in health care environments (link to Eminence cluster)