Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Research Projects

  

Applications

  • Development of flow management strategies.
  • Analysis of effects induced by distributed surface roughness and, in particular, role of  roughness in the laminar-turbulent transition, in generation of pressure losses in micro-channels and in modifying structures in turbulent flow. Use of roughness for the development of flow management strategies.
  • Convection driven by buoyancy and by surface tension effects. Use of heating for the development of flow management strategies.
  • Topological bifurcations and moving boundary problems in flow systems. Development of strategies for management of interface rupture processes.
  • Flow phenomena driven by electric and magnetic fields. Use of these phenomena for the development of flow management strategies.
  • Development of novel energy storage concepts.

Methodology

  • Development of the immersed boundary conditions method.
  • Development of spectral methods.
  • Development of accurate methods suitable for the moving boundary problems.
  • Hydrodynamic stability theory for spatially modulated flows.

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Contact Info

Jerzy M.Floryan

  Ph.D., P.Eng.
  Office: SEB 2051
  T: 519 661-2111 X88330
  Fax: 519 661-3020
  Mfloryan@eng.uwo.ca