Prof.dr.ir. J. Westerweel
Position:
Fluid Mechanics Chair / Ship Hydromechanics Chair (a.i.)
Section:
Projects:
Demixing in turbulent 3 phase flows
DisTUrbE - Dispersion in the Turbulent Urban Environment
Drag Reduction in WaterSports
Droplet coalescence in dense suspensions
Impact of boiling liquid on fluid-vapour-wall interaction in LNG transfer systems
Investigation of complex flow patterns in a moving immersion lens droplet
MSc project: Oblique impact of two droplets at high Weber number
PhD project: Air leakage control of air cavity vessels for maritime transport through hydrophobic coatings
PhD project: Study of dense turbulent sediment transport by means of fully resolved simulations
PhD project: The influence of the properties of antifouling coatings on the skin friction and turbulent boundary layer along a ship
Prediction and control of flow-induced noise in corrugated pipes with gas-liquid flow at elevated pressure
Ship drag reduction by air lubrication
The hemodynamics of vascular remodelling
Interest areas:
Turbulence and coherent flow structures, turbulent mixing, disperse multiphase flows, microfluidics, biological flows, and fluid mechanics of sports. Optical measurement techniques for quantitative measurements in flows, i.e. particle image velocimetry, planar laser-induced fluorescence, holography.
Editor-in-Chief for Experiments in Fluids
R.J. Adrian & J. Westerweel (2011)
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in the media:
Omroep Brabant -- Sportinnovatie
Delft Integraal -- Over sportinnovatie

Prof.dr.ir. J. Westerweel
- +31-15-278-6887
- J.Westerweel@tudelft.nl
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Delft University of Technology
Mekelweg 2
2628 CD Delft
The Netherlands