Turbulence and Energy Systems Laboratory (TESLa)
Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
Research Areas
Fire dynamics
High-fidelity simulations of fire in both natural and built environments
High-speed combustion
Physics-based studies of high-speed turbulent premixed combustion
Industrial systems
Modeling and optimization of real-world engineering and industrial systems
Ocean biogeochemistry
Reduced-order modeling for high-fidelity simulations of the upper ocean
Turbulent flows
Studies of turbulence physics for model development and calibration
Wind energy
Optimization and control of wind plants using high-fidelity simulations
Software
spectralLES
Pure-Python pseudospectral large eddy simulation solver for model testing and development
Principal Investigator
Peter Hamlington
Associate Professor
Researchers
Sam Simons-Wellin
PhD student
Colin Towery
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Kelsea Souders
PhD Student
Mary McGuinn
PhD student
Recent Publications
(2022).
Puffing frequency of interacting buoyant plumes.
Physical Review Fluids.
(2022).
Richardson and Reynolds number effects on the near field of buoyant plumes: temporal variability and puffing.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
(2022).
Efficient algorithm for proper orthogonal decomposition of block-structured adaptively refined numerical simulations.
Journal of Computational Physics.
(2022).
The near-field dynamics of buoyant helium plumes.
CU Dissertation.
(2021).
Lagrangian analysis of enstrophy dynamics in a highly turbulent premixed flame.
Physics of Fluids.
(2020).
Numerical simulations of buoyancy-driven flows using adaptive mesh refinement: structure and dynamics of a large-scale helium plume.
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Contact
- (303) 492-0555
- 427 UCB, 1111 Engineering Dr, Boulder, CO 80309
- TESLa is located in the Mechanical Engineering wing of the Engineering Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Peter Hamlington can be found in office ECME 177 and the student office is ECME 217.
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