Current members

Dr Sylvain Laizet, Reader in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Omar Mahfoze, PhD student (active control solution for drag reduction and energy saving / Baysian optimisation framework for fluid flow problems)

Athanasios E. Giannenas, PhD student (immersed boundary methods for moving objects)

Ali Girayhan Ozbay PhD student (machine learning algorithms for computational fluid dynamics applications)

Dr. Arash Hamzehloo, Research Associate (framework for the automated derivation of our finite-difference solver / code generation for various hardware)

Michael Mays, PhD student (advanced turbulence models for high Reynolds number separated flows)

Amy Hodgkin, PhD student (wind farm control and atmospheric boundary layers)

Dr. Nikos Bempedelis Research Associate (exascale computing & renewable energy)

Filippo Gori, PhD student (optimisation and control of wind farms, reduced order modelling)

Dr Joe O'Connor Research Associate (active flow control of wall-bounded flows)

Christian Jane Ippel PhD student (Scale-resolving simulations of atmosphere / wind farm interactions)

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Past members

Dr Vassilis Ioannou, PhD student
-high fidelity simulations of plasma-controlled turbulent jets

Dr. Paul Bartholomew, Research Associate, now Applications consultant in high performance computing at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, UK
-research software engineer / non-Boussinesq gravity currents and free surface flows

Dr. Georgios Deskos, PhD student and Research Associate, now Postdoctoral Researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Boulder Colorado, USA
-high fidelity wind farm simulator / control solution for large-scale wind farms
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Dr. Carlos Diaz Daniel, PhD student, now Associate at McKinsey & Company, Madrid, Spain
-study of turbulent boundary layer with and without a wall-mounted cube

Dr. Timothy Brauner, Research Associate, now Project and Software Development Engineer at CHAM, London, UK
-development of plasma actuator models for our solvers

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