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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 researcher

Professor Bharath Ganapathisubramani

Professor of Experimental Fluid Mechani
Connect with Bharath

Email: G.Bharath@soton.ac.uk

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: n.sandham@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Group

Our group undertakes research on fundamental fluid dynamics, applied aerodynamics, flow control, flight dynamics and aeroacoustics.

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