Research

Fluid dynamics is a major UK industrial and research strength, and is critical to many applications. Fluid dynamics is an enabling technology for industry sectors as diverse as transport, healthcare technologies, marine and energy. It plays a key role in the most important challenges facing today’s society, including the drive to net zero, understanding disease and predicting weather and climate.

Training portal to enable stakeholders to access LIFD training materials and signpost to existing relevant MSc courses (under development)

A selection of case studies showcasing AI in Fluid Dynamics research at Leeds

Space weather is strongly influenced by the sun’s activity, generated by the sun’s magnetic field. Solar flares, coronal mass ejections and sun spots are high-energy events that can directly affect radio and satellite communications, electricity grid operation and radiation levels on Earth; so predicting what the sun is going to do is of huge importance in operational and risk-planning.

The requirement for ever more efficient gas turbine engines is leading to increased gas path temperatures, creating increasingly hostile environmental conditions for the adjacent turbomachinery and support structures...

Over 40% of the UK population live their working lives carrying out knowledge work in offices - enclosed spaces in the built environment. Current building codes are primarily defined around the performance of the physical infrastructure rather than capturing the performance of a person in a building in a city...

Dense buoyancy driven flows in channels are the main transport pathway between shallow slope regions and the deep sea. In higher latitudes these stratified flows are known to be strongly affected by Coriolis forces, however, the influence of these rotational forces on turbulent energy production and dissipation, shear stress distribution, and entrainment is largely unknown...

This consortium project addresses nuclear waste and decommissioning, bringing together industry partners and academic researchers from ten leading universities...

The GENESIS project aims to develop a new set of equations to describe the early stages of development of convective clouds...

 

The Earth’s magnetic field is now continuously monitored from space by a swarm of satellites, and more data has been gathered from magnetic observatories in the past. Since the Earth’s magnetic field is generated in the fluid outer core of the Earth, by looking for the wave components in the magnetic data we can potentially discover information about the nature of the inside of the Earth...

The mission of the Hub is to be an international leader in liquid metal engineering, involving fundamental and applied research from nucleation centred solidification science through to sustainable metal processing technologies...

A collaboration between the Materials Processing Institute at Middlesbrough and the University of Leeds has been set up to study the fluid processes involved in steel manufacturing...

PhD student publications from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics

Inkjet printing is a rapidly advancing technology. The total market value of inkjet printing doubled between 2012 and 2015 and is predicted to exceed $90 billion by 2021...

The Maths Foresees Network forges links between academics and industry to rethink their approach to modelling extreme weather events and promote the mathematical modelling of environmental hazards among the general public...

This UK Fluids Network special interest group (SIG) supports the engagement, retention and progression of women in the fluid dynamics discipline in academia and industry. There is currently a substantial underrepresentation of women in fluid dynamics at all career stages, and this SIG will provide a space to network, raise the profile of women across the breadth of fluid dynamics, support career development, be a voice for the community and to funders, and ultimately be a platform to enhance wider aspects of diversity in fluid dynamics. The SIG is open to all who have an interest in furthering the development of women in fluids.