Engineering Applications of Fluid Mechanics

About the Group

Our group, led by Dr. Ran Holtzman, specialises in engineering applications of complex systems driven by fluid flow.

We combine experiments, theory and numerical simulations, to gain fundamental understanding and establish quantitative models of various phenomena in which fluid dynamics is key, including mass and heat transfer, reactive transport, flow in porous media, turbulent flows, aerodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, combustion, and biomechanics.

We are involved in a wide range of industrial and natural processes across scales, from microfabrication and CFD simulations, 3-D printing, microfluidics and filters, to water resources, geohazards, enhanced hydrocarbon recovery, carbon geosequestration and renewable energy systems.

Meet the Team

	Ran Holtzman (Group Leader) Fundamental understanding and predictive modeling of the physics underlying engineering/ earth science applications. Topics include flow in porous media; multiphase flow; reactive transport; fluid-solid interactions; pore-scale; nonequilibrium and flows instabilities; granular media. ad2472@coventry.ac.uk
	Jonathan Carter Uncertainty and risk quantification, decision making subject to uncertainty, inverse problems and optimisation across all areas of science and engineering, with a particular interest in geological and subsurface applications. ac8191@coventry.ac.uk
	Yuancheng (Alex) Liang Aluminium Casting, Cooling and heat exchange, Numerical analysis. ad3281@coventry.ac.uk
	Essam Abdelfatah Liquid atomisation and injectors design; Mass and Heat transfer; Wind and Hydro Power turbines.
	Svetlana Aleksandrova Computational and experimental fluid dynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics. csy092@coventry.ac.uk
	James Jewkes CFD (RANS, LES and DNS), turbulent flows (boundary layers and jets), automotive aerodynamics, shape-optimisation (kriging and adjoint methods), heat transfer, and biomechanics (computational haemodynamics). ac3541@coventry.ac.uk
	Jonathan Nixon Energy systems modelling and optimisation; wind, solar and bio- energy engineering, and multi-criteria and multi-objective decision making. ac2569@coventry.ac.uk
	Seyed Shariatipour Experimental studies and numerical modelling of fluid flow in porous media; in particular, CO2 storage in geological formations and CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (CO2-EOR). ab6995@coventry.ac.uk
	Cuicui Li ad0357@coventry.ac.uk
	Anh Tran ac1340@coventry.ac.uk
	Masoud Ahmadinia Research student ahmadinm@coventry.ac.uk
	Mohammadreza Bagheri Research student bagherim@coventry.ac.uk
	Alisson Vinicius Brito Lopes Research student britoloa@coventry.ac.uk
	Raguram Nagarajan Research student nagara18@coventry.ac.uk
	Michael Onoja Research student onojau@coventry.ac.uk
	Azadeh Pourmalek Research student pourmala@coventry.ac.uk
	Mahdi Sadri Research student sadrim@coventry.ac.uk
	Tongyan Zeng Research student zengt5@coventry.ac.uk
	Mohsen Abbaszadeh Research student

Projects

Special Interest Group in Particulate Matter Filtration Flows in Automotive and Marine Applications

The group's focus is particulate matter filtration flows, in aftertreatment and other systems. With rapidly tightening emissions regulations for land and sea transport, this research area urgently needs a boost, which will be facilitated by bringing together industry and academia, as well as traditionally separated marine and automotive research communities.

The group's activities involve, but are not limited to:

organising 2 meetings a year
development of resources for UK Fluids Network and wider community (knowledge base, guides to PM regulations, resources on modelling filtration flows, UK research facility and capacity database, instructional videos, tutorials)
creating a collaboration networks and engaging both academic and industry in particulate matter flow research
defining targets and building consortia for funding bids

Read more information about the Particulate Matter Filtration Flows in Automotive and Marine Applications project.

Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Simulation Models

The testing and comparison of petroleum reservoir engineering modelling techniques requires the continued existence of standard models. A number of key models were developed 20-25 years ago, mainly under EU funding. Over the years these standard models have become unavailable as the websites that supported them have been decommissioned. The objective is to make them available to the research community at a single location.

Read information about the Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Simulation Models project.