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Research project

Understanding and exploiting non-equilibrium effects in turbulent boundary layers: towards realisable drag reduction strategies

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Bharath Ganapathisubramani

Professor-Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Connect with Bharath

Email: G.Bharath@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Defining an equivalent homogeneous roughness length for turbulent boundary layers developing over patchy or heterogeneous surfaces
N. Hutchins, B. Ganapathisubramani, M.P. Schultz & D.I. Pullin, 2023, Ocean Engineering, 271
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.113454
Type: article
Experimental observations on turbulent boundary layers subjected to a step-change in surface roughness
Melika Gul & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2022.608
Type: article
Revisiting rough-wall turbulent boundary layers over sand-grain roughness
Melika Gul & Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 911, A26
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.1004
Type: article