UK Turbulence Consortium

理解、预测和控制湍流是至关重要的，也是众多行业的限制因素：海军、航空、汽车、发电、工艺、制药、气象和环境。我们的观点是，湍流研究取得进展的关键是维持和刺激研究人员之间的互动。必须以有效和建设性的方式汇集各种不同的观点、意见、战略和方法。考虑到湍流带来的巨大挑战，该联盟的本质是提供必要的临界质量活动的核心。该联盟汇集了互补的专业知识/经验/知识，并协调活动，利用高性能计算寻找连贯、合理和战略的方式来理解、预测和控制湍流。为了协调、扩大和统一其参与者的研究工作，并将其专业知识和发现传达给更广泛的受众，该联盟对英国至关重要。UKTC于1995年首次获得资助，已经经历了五次非常成功的迭代。自成立以来，它有了显著的增长，从最初的5个成员到现在的21个英国机构的46个成员，并且不断收到来自学术界的加入请求（现在的20个新成员）。在过去的22年里，UKTC已经(i)展示了其将国家高端计算（HEC）资源转化为国际领先研究的能力（自1995年以来发表了数百篇论文，数千篇非自我引用），（ii）建立了其国际竞争力，（iii）帮助其成员利用并获得了来自政府资助机构和行业的数百万英镑赠款。（四）发现了新的流体流动现象，从而找到了改善湍流有利影响和减少湍流不利影响的新方法；（五）促进了设计更复杂的湍流模型，重新定义了工业标准。该联盟的成员是（按字母顺序）：Pavlos Aleiferis（伦敦帝国学院）；Eldad Avital（伦敦玛丽女王）；安吉拉·布斯（格拉斯哥大学）；钟永曼（华威大学）；Dimitris Drikakis (University of Strathclyde)；大卫·爱默生（达斯伯里实验室）；方健（Daresbury实验室）；杰拉德·戈尔曼（伦敦帝国理工学院）；英国谢菲尔德大学；黄永允（伦敦帝国学院）；理查德·杰斐逊-洛夫迪（诺丁汉大学）；西江（伦敦玛丽女王）；罗伯特·科尔（华威大学）；金载旭（南安普顿大学）；Sylvain Laizet（伦敦帝国学院）；Michael A. Leschziner（伦敦帝国学院）；罗凯（伦敦大学学院）；毛雪芮（英国诺丁汉大学）；奥拉夫·马科森（萨里大学）；乔安妮·梅森（埃克塞特大学）；艾米·s·摩根（伦敦帝国学院）；Charles Moulinec （Daresbury实验室）；加里·佩奇（拉夫堡大学）；乔治·帕帕达基斯（伦敦帝国学院）；马修·皮戈特（伦敦帝国学院）；Alfredo Pinelli（伦敦城市大学）；Alistair Revell（曼彻斯特大学）；Pierre Ricco（英国谢菲尔德大学）；Aldo Rona（莱斯特大学）；Neil Sandham（南安普顿大学）；马克·萨维尔（克兰菲尔德大学）；彼得·施密德（伦敦帝国理工学院）；Mehdi Seddighi（利物浦大学）；斯宾塞·舍温（伦敦帝国学院）；约翰S. Shrimpton（南安普敦大学）；Vassilios Theofilis（利物浦大学）；埃米尔·托伯（伦敦帝国学院）；保罗·塔克（剑桥大学）；Maarten van Reeuwijk（伦敦帝国学院）；J. Christos Vassilicos（伦敦帝国学院）；彼得·文森特（伦敦帝国理工学院）；安迪·惠勒（剑桥大学）；贝丝·温盖特（埃克塞特大学）；夏军伦敦布鲁内尔大学；姚玉芬（英国布里斯托大学）

Understanding, predicting and controlling turbulent flows is of central importance and a limiting factor to a vast range of industries: naval, aeronautical, automotive, power generation, process, pharmaceutical, meteorological and environmental. Our view is that the key to advances in turbulence is by sustaining and stimulating interaction among researchers. It is essential that a diverse range of viewpoints, opinions, strategies and methods are brought together in an efficient and constructive manner. The essence of the consortium is to provide the central core of a needed critical mass activity considering the big challenges posed by turbulence. The consortium brings together complementary expertise/experience/knowledge and coordinate activities to look at coherent, rational and strategic ways of understanding, predicting and controlling turbulent flows using High Performance Computing. The consortium is crucial for the UK in order to coordinate, augment and unify the research efforts of its participants and to communicate its expertise and findings to a wider audience. Firstly funded in 1995, the UKTC has been through five highly successful iterations. It has seen significant growth since its inception, from 5 original members to 46 members over 21 UK institutions for the present bid, and is continuously receiving requests from academics to join (20 new members for the present bid). In the last 22 years, the UKTC has (i)demonstrated its ability to convert access to national High-End Computing (HEC) resources into internationally leading research (hundreds published papers since 1995 with thousands non-self citations), (ii) established its international competiveness, (iii) helped its members to leverage and secure multi -million £ grants from governmental funding bodies and industries, (iv) allowed the discovery of new fluid flow phenomena which have led to new ways of improving beneficial effects and reducing negative effects of turbulent flows and (v) facilitated the design of more sophisticated turbulence models redefining industry standards.The member of the consortium are (in alphabetic order): Pavlos Aleiferis (Imperial College London); Eldad Avital (Queen Mary London); Angela Busse (University of Glasgow); Yongmann Chung (University of Warwick); Dimitris Drikakis (University of Strathclyde); David Emerson (Daresbury Lab); Jian Fang (Daresbury Lab); Gerard Gorman (Imperial College London); Shuishen He (University of Sheffield); Yongyun Hwang (Imperial College London); Richard Jefferson-Loveday (University of Nottingham); Xi Jiang (Queen Mary London); Robert Kerr (University of Warwick); Jae-Wook Kim (University of Southampton); Sylvain Laizet (Imperial College London); Michael A. Leschziner (Imperial College London); Kai Luo (University College London); Xuerui Mao (University of Nottingham); Olaf Marxen (University of Surrey); Joanne Mason (University of Exeter); Aimee S. Morgans (Imperial College London); Charles Moulinec (Daresbury Lab); Gary Page (Loughborough University); George Papadakis (Imperial College London); Matthew Piggott (Imperial College London); Alfredo Pinelli (City University London); Alistair Revell (University of Manchester); Pierre Ricco (University of Sheffield); Aldo Rona (University of Leicester); Neil Sandham (University of Southampton); Mark Savill (University of Cranfield); Peter Schmid (Imperial College London); Mehdi Seddighi (University of Liverpool); Spencer Sherwin (Imperial College London); John S. Shrimpton (University of Southampton); Vassilios Theofilis (University of Liverpool); Emile Touber (Imperial College London); Paul Tucker (University of Cambridge); Maarten van Reeuwijk (Imperial College London); J. Christos Vassilicos (Imperial College London); Peter Vincent (Imperial College London); Andy Wheeler (Univer-sity of Cambridge); Beth Wingate (University of Exeter); Jun Xia (Brunel University London); Yufen Yao (University of Bristol).