Computational Simulation in Multi-Physical Engineering Fluid Dynamics
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Computational simulation in multi-physical engineering fluid dynamics
In the 21st century, computers are becoming increasingly critical for developing more sophisticated designs via elegant simulations which involve fluid flow. Examples of responsive intelligent systems which require this include biometric pumps, functional coatings for marine anti-corrosion and sustainable nanofluid solar collectors. Multi-physical fluid dynamics considers many different inter-disciplinary phenomena which can occur simultaneously. Modern software allow more complex phenomena to be simulated simultaneously which better reflects reality. This lecture will review the extensive work conducted by Professor Bég at the University of Salford over the past 6 years.
These 7 key objectives, fundamental to his approach, will be discussed:
1) Developing models which combine multiple effects simultaneously to address a wide spectrum of behaviour including thermal, electromagnetic, bio-inspired, nanoscale and adaptive (smart) materials.
2] Combining different branches of engineering sciences to achieve complexity including heat transfer, fluid flow, geometry, thermodynamics, electromagnetics, acoustics, biology, chemistry and materials. This is needed to represent actual emerging systems in the 21st century.
3] Employing the new models to improve new designs in a range of different engineering applications such as aerospace, energy, medical (pharmacology and physiology), robotics, materials and manufacturing systems.
4] To extensively verify the accuracy of numerical methods employed with other techniques and thereby establish high confidence in the simulations.
5] To visualise via advanced software the interactive behaviour of different effects such as heat, electromagnetic fields, viscous flow, rotation, micro and nano-scale behaviour to corroborate with experiments.
6] Filtering the new developments into undergraduate and postgraduate projects to expose students at Salford to new trends and better equip them for careers in industry.
7] To disseminate the new findings on the international platform in leading journals and conferences.
This lecture also features many undergraduate and post graduate projects Anwar has supervised, which have advanced the frontiers at The University of Salford (and internationally) in multi-physical simulation. Furthermore, it includes many collaborative works conducted with colleagues at Salford University in mechanical engineering, based in the School of Science, Engineering and Environment in addition to international collaborations.
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About Professor Anwar Beg
Anwar holds the Chair in Mechanical Engineering Science in the School of Science, Engineering and Environment (SEE), University of Salford. He received his PhD in Engineering Magnetohydrodynamics from Manchester University in 1996. He joined Salford University in March 2016 and has in the past 6 years introduced new research themes in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), nanofluid dynamics, electromagnetic lubrication, hybrid energy, robotic swimming, coating simulation and medical fluid dynamics. He works closely with many international research groups including the USA Airforce Institute of Technology (Ohio, USA) on aero-thermo-mechanics and nano-propulsion and the Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy on electromagnetic pumping and nano-tribology.
Professor Bég’s research work and supervision has resulted in 3 awards: in 2017 (RAEs Teddy Fielding Prize), for work on aircraft wing water ingress simulation, in 2018 (a Vice Chancellor Award for Research Excellence for sustained output in leading high impact factor international journals and integration of new research themes into the engineering curriculum) and in 2019 (Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for Aerospace Research, awarded to his PhD student, S. Kuharat). He has been UK editor for the Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology since 2010. He has recently supervised to completion 2 PhDs at Salford on solar nanofluid computation and high temperature corrosion protection with micro/nano coatings. Anwar has also established a unique University of Salford research group in mechanical engineering, the Multi-Physical Engineering Sciences Research Group with Dr. Ali Kadir, Dr Walid Jouri and Dr Henry Leonard. He has mobilized a new thrust in nanotechnology and has combined biology, energy sciences, computational methods and nanoscience to design multiple MSc projects, supervising over 35 in addition to numerous undergraduate projects. He has published almost 600 journal papers and 50 conference papers in his career including over 60 with colleagues at the University of Salford.
Professor Beg is ranked number 1 in the world on google scholar in multi-physics, mass transport and biological fluid mechanics. His research features an extensive range of computational techniques with a recent focus on high fidelity visualization (ANSYS FLUENT, FREE FEM++, COMSOL). He teaches fluid mechanics at undergraduate level and CFD on the MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering Design/Aerospace engineering programs. His most recent work involves Taylor dispersion in pharmacological transport, hydrodynamic stability of interfacial flows in polymer manufacture and bio-inspired pumps for rocket fuel combustion.
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