Dr Ignazio Maria Viola

School of Engineering

My research is in applied fluid dynamics and focuses on the viscous flow around immersed bodies, for example, the behaviour of the air around the sail of a yacht, and the water around the blade of a tidal turbine. I am particularly interested in those conditions where the nature of the onset flow is turbulent and the forces on the body are due to the formation of vortical flow structures.

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Dr Ignazio Maria Viola
Dr Ignazio Maria Viola