Keynote Lectures
Exploring Turbulent Dispersion and Urban Aerodynamics via PIV and PLIF
Christina Vanderwel (University of Southampton, UK)
Christina Vanderwel is a Professor in the Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Department at the University of Southampton. Since 2023, she is also the Head of the Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Research Group.
Her research specialises in experimental fluid mechanics, turbulence, and dispersion. In particular, her work involves conducting laboratory experiments using laser-based diagnostics to study the mechanisms of transport of turbulent flows. Applications include building aerodynamics, urban air pollution, ocean mixing, vehicle aerodynamics and industrial flows. She is a member of the UK Fluids Network executive committee and on the advisory board of the National Wind Tunnel Facility.
Since 2020, her research has been funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. This project aims at resolving airflow in and around buildings to better understand urban air pollution through experiments conducted on 3D-printed scale models in a controlled laboratory flow facility. Christina has a track record of working with local council and industry to inform air pollution policy and wind engineering design. She is a member of the UK Wind Engineering Society and Urban Fluid Mechanics Special Interest Group.
Tracing the footprints in high-speed flows via fast PSP & TSP: from flow instability to symmetry
Di Peng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Di Peng is a full Professor in School of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai, China). He received his Master's and Ph.D degrees in Aerospace Engineering from The Ohio State University under supervision of Dr. James Gregory. His main research interest is development and application of advanced aerodynamic measurement techniques, including pressure-sensitive paint (PSP), temperature-sensitive paint (TSP) and phosphor thermometry. He has over 100 journal publications and received the Chinese National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Experiments in Fluids.
Recent Developments in Near-Wall Measurements
Philippe Bardet (The George Washington University, USA)
Dr. Bardet’s research group is developing non-intrusive optical diagnostics for probing complex flows. The techniques developed in-house are deployed to fluid-structure interactions, mass transfer and dynamics at liquid-gas interfaces, and turbulent wall-bounded flows. Dr. Bardet has led several in-situ experimental campaigns to instrument some of the largest experimental facilities. His research is applied to naval hydrodynamics and nuclear thermal hydraulics.
Dr. Bardet is the director of the ONR Consortium on Naval Enterprise Pathways (CoNEP), a large effort to develop new workforce pipelines for the Naval RD&E within the Washington, DC area through innovative research. He is also the director of the newly formed Computational Imaging Research Center (CIRC), a partnership between industry, National Laboratories, and academia to push the limits of optical diagnostics.
Dr. Bardet teaches courses in Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Experimental Methods, Electronics, and Optics.