Solmaz Khoshavaz is a former Masters student at the FuildFrame Lab who after graduating went on to do her PhD with KU Leven’s LMSD group to work on the numerical and experimental analysis of buffeting phenomena, and its influence on far-field noise radiation. She had received her BS in Aerospace Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Iran) in 2017. While working at Fluid Frame Lab, her research focused on modelling turbulence close to a liquid-gas interface. For instance, a scenario typical of falling liquid films. Gravity driven films sheared by turbulent gases are widely encountered in distillators, absorbers, evaporators and heat exchangers, in which maximizing the heat/mass exchange is desired. Her aim was to study the effect of the turbulent gas on the interface, since heat/mass transfer is strongly affected by the interface shape. In order to accomplish this objective, she worked on developing a numerical tool in which (i) a Spectral Vanishing Viscosity (SVV) operator is used to model smaller scales of turbulent structures and (ii) a front tracking method is used to accurately predict the interface evolution.
18
Sep
2018
Solmaz Khoshavaz
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