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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

An alternative floating element design for skin-friction measurement of turbulent wall flows
Manuel Amaro Matoso Aguiar Ferreira, Eduardo Rodriguez-Lopez & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2018, Experiments in Fluids, 59(155), 1-15
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-018-2612-2
Type: article
Skin-friction measurements in a turbulent boundary layer under the influence of free-stream turbulence
Luis Blay Esteban, Eda Dogan, Eduardo Rodriguez-Lopez & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2017, Experiments in Fluids, 58(115)
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-017-2397-8
Type: article