Michael Xie
- mxxie@student.unimelb.edu.au
- Desk 2.041, Level 2, Melbourne Connect
Thesis Title
Turbulent Flow over Spatially Varying Roughness
Research overview
From the air around a moving car to the water around a cruising ship, wall-bounded turbulent flows are ubiquitous in our daily lives. Many existing models make accurate predictions in a wide range of engineering applications. When surfaces exhibit large-scale changes in roughness, they induce new flow phenomena and alter important engineering quantities, such as drag and heat transfer. Through generating a new database with turbulent flows over such heterogeneous surfaces and analysing the results, this thesis evaluates the use of existing models in such applications.
Supervisors
Qualifications
M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia (2018)
B.Sc. Mechanical Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia (2015)