New Investigator Award EPSRC - Determining the Effects of Competing Instabilities in Complex Rotating Boundary Layers

PI Dr Zahir Hussain
National Lead of the Boundary Layers & Complex Rotating Flows UKFN SIG 
Qualifications: BA, MA (Cantab), PhD, MRAeS, FHEA
Email: zahir.hussain@le.ac.uk
Lecturer in Fluid Dynamics

Project work packages 

• WP1: Neutral stability analyses for complex geometries
• WP2: Energy analyses and flow dissipation
• WP3: Competing effects of crossflow and centrifugal instabilities

Main results

• Chebyshev Spectral Solver (CheSS)
• Competing Boundary Layer Instabilities
• Complex 3D geometry neutral stability curves