Bio:
I originally encountered fluid dynamics, primarily in the context of atmospheres and oceans, while studying Physics at Oxford. My MPhys project on working on parametrising turbulent flows in climate models there convinced me that I wanted to pursue a PhD in fluids. I joined the Fluids Mechanics Across Scales CDT at Imperial in 2017, completing the MRes portion in 2018. My MRes project had a more mathematical focus and was on the nonlinear evolution of interacting sinuous and varicose modes in plane wakes and jets. I started my PhD in 2018.
Work description:
My PhD project focuses on the modelling of the flow in stirred tanks. This has involved the application of dimensionality reduction methods to examine the periodic features, and to construct reduced order models, of the flow field in a stirred tank at a transitional Reynolds number, using DNS data. Further, using LES, I am applying these methods to higher Reynolds number and fully turbulent flows in stirred tanks. I am also examining the applicability of these to particle carrying flows in a stirred tank.