Fluid Mechanics Research

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The specific objectives of the proposed work are: a) to investigate multi-structure turbulence, to document the scaling of energy dissipation and to scrutinize the validity of fundamental assumptions in turbulence theory; b) to study the interaction between anisotropic, sheared turbulence in the free stream and turbulence generated by a stationary or moving wall; c) to document the turbulence structure, by-pass transition and relaminarisation, scalar transport from concentrated sources, heat transfer from the wall and vortex shedding from internal objects in temporally accelerating and decelerating channel flows; d) to extend Taylorian turbulent diffusion theory to developing and multi-structure flows, to devise conditions that optimize scalar diffusion and mixing and to investigate the effect of Schmidt/Prandtl number on the scalar fine structure and the development of differential diffusion; e) to study experimentally vortex stability and breakdown under the influence of transverse and streamwise disturbances, and to document in detail the mutual interactions between a streamwise vortex and coherent structures in a turbulent free stream; f) to modify an existing mock circulation loop so that it reproduces physiological coronary flows and to collect velocity measurements in an anatomical model of the aorta near the coronary inlet for different orientations of a prosthetic heart valve.