Mechanical Engineering - Thermo and Fluid Dynamics Area

Fluid Engineering Lab. Osaka Univ.

Introduction

The target of our laboratory is Fluid Dynamics, e.g. direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow and multi-phase flow using super-computers, model development and its application.

Research Themes

• Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence
• Turbulent Flow in a Rotating Channel
• Turbulent Separating Flow in an Asymmetric Plane Diffuser
• Laminarization of Near-Wall Turbulence subjected to Flow Acceleration
• Drag Reduction of Turbulent Flow by Near-Wall Dumping in Specific Wave-Number Domain
• Turbulent Channel Flow with Thermal Stratification by Low-Mach Number Method
• Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Turbulent Flow in Cylinder


• Development of Turbulence Model
• New Dynamic Procedure for One-Equation SGS Model of LES


• Direct Numerical Simulation of Multi-Phase Flow
• Effect of Particle Rotation on the Drag of Particle-Laden Turbulence
• Simulation of Unsteady Cavitating Flow


• Application for Practical Problems
• Analysis of Turbulence Noise
• Mechanism for Thrust by Oscillating Airfoil

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