Case Studies
Flow diagnostic technique development for industrial-scale experiments.
A PhD project sponsored by the European Space Agency has investigated experimental techniques that can be applied to high-speed wind tunnel tests to investigate the breakup of satellites and other…
Bio-inspired micro-scale surface structures for reducing shockwave-induced flow separation.
Bio-inspired micro-scale surface structures have been successfully employed to suppress shockwave-induced flow separation for the first time as demonstrated in a wind tunnel experiment undertaken at The University of Manchester….
Miniaturisation of Flow Diagnostic Measurements (miniPSP)
This project, funded by Innovate UK in collaboration with the Aircraft Research Association (ARA) built upon the years of experience of the two institutions at utilising and developing flow diagnostic…
Herringbone riblet surface structures reduce shock-induced flow separation.
Researchers at the University of Manchester, led by Professor Shan Zhong, have found that herringbone riblets – inspired by the wing surface structures of birds, could provide improvements to the…