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With the ever more stringent requirements of emissions and fuel economy imposed on the automotive industry, there is a need to understand more fully all aspects of the internal combustion engine to meet these requirements and at the same time the desire of the customer for accep…

This thesis is a study of the swimming locomotion of the polychaete worm, Nereis diversicolor. Previous research has shown that there are two distinct jet-like flow regions in the wake of a swimming polychaete worm (Hesselberg 2006). In the first section of this thesis, this flo…

An experimental investigation into the form of the notchback wake topology, its temporal behaviour, and how this changes with the underlying geometry has been undertaken to further understanding of this flow regime pertaining to a popular automotive body type. Whilst this work h…

In order to design next generation gas turbine combustor and rocket engines, a systematic study of flame structure at high intensity turbulent flow is necessary. The fundamental study of turbulent premixed combustion has been a major research concern for decades. The work is foc…