The University of Western Australia
School of Civil and Resource Engineering
 
 

School of Civil and Resource Engineering

Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics

Staff

Prof Liang Cheng

  • Scour and scour protections 
  • Numerical modelling of turbulent flows, hydrodynamic forces on structures, vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) and local scour below pipelines and around structures
  • Sediment transport processes
  • Non-linear wave forces on structures

A/Prof Tongming Zhou

  • Wind tunnel testing, especially flow visualisations using smoking, velocity field measurements in various flows and wind load on various structures
  • Experimental fluid mechanics using hot wire anemometers, LDA and PIV
  • Vortex shedding from single/multiple bluff bodies for the application in vortex-induced vibrations
  • Control of flow-induced-vibrations using passive methods

Dr. Ming Zhao

  • Finite element modelling of turbulent flows, hydrodynamic forces on structures, vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) and local scour below pipelines and around structures
  • Sand wave modelling
  • Wave forces on marine structures
Dr. Zhipeng Zang
  • Numerical and experimental research for the local scour below pipelines
  • Generation and migration of sand waves and the interaction with offshore pipelines

Hongwei An

  • Numerical simulation of interaction between oscillatory flow and a circular cylinder

Numerical results of flow past a sub-sear vertical cylinder Numerical results of flow past a sub-sear vertical cylinder.

Our research is specialised in the area of Computation Fluid Dynamics and Experimental Fluid Mechanics.

Main research interests

  • Fluid/structure Interactions
  • Fluid/seabed interactions
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Physical and numerical modelling of seabed erosion and scour problems
  • Seabed morphology in large oceanic area.
  • Experimental fluid mechanics using hot wire anemometers, LDA and PIV,
  • Vortex shedding from single/multiple bluff bodies for the application in vortex-induced vibrations,
  • Control of flow-induced-vibrations using passive methods

Facilities, testing and consulting services

We provide laboratory testing and consulting services in hydraulics and fluid mechanics for industry:

Our facilities include a wind tunnel, wave and current flumes, O-tune facilities and underwater jetting. Our laboratories are equipped with state-of-art measurement devices such as hot-wire anemometer, ADV, laster profilers, pressure and force transducers.

We have developed Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) packages that can be used in research and consulting projects. The packages developed so far include SCOUR-2D, SCOUR-MPI-3D, RANS-2D and RANS-MPI-3D.

SCOUR-2D and SCOUR-3D are two-dimensional and three-dimensional local scour simulation programs respectively that are able to simulate local scour around various structures under steady currents, waves and combined waves and currents conditions.

RANS-2D and RANS-MPI-3D are two-dimensional and three-dimensional Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equation solvers respectively that are able to simulate hydrodynamic forces on slender objects and vortex-induced vibrations of pipelines and risers subject to steady currents, waves and combined waves and currents.

Projects


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