Sean Symon

For examples of past IP projects, please visit the Research Group page and click on the links next to the names of MEng students in order to see their posters.

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Data assimilation

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Ongoing:

D1. Adjoint-based data-assimilation of 3D time-averaged flows

D2. State-observer assimilation of time-averaged flows

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Completed:

D3. Reconstruction of flows using resolvent analysis and data assimilation

(see Symon et al. JFM 2019, Symon et al. AIAA J. 2020)

D4. Adjoint-based data-assimilation of 2D time-averaged flows

(see Symon et al. Exp. Fluids 2017) 

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Wall-bounded turbulence

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Ongoing:

W1. On the use of eddy viscosity modelling in resolvent analysis of turbulent channel flow

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Completed:

W2. Energy transfer in turbulent channel flows and implications for resolvent modelling

(see Symon et al. JFM 2021)

W3. Coherent structures from the impulse response of the linearised Navier-Stokes equations

(see Vadarevu et al. JFM 2019)

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Reduced-order modelling

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Ongoing:

R1. Triadic interactions and energy transfer in a stalled airfoil

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Completed:

R2. Triadic interactions and energy transfer mechanisms in the cylinder wake 

(see Rosenberg et al. PRF 2019 and Jin et al. PRF 2021)

R3. Non-normality in stability and resolvent analysis 

(see Symon et al. PRF 2018)

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Soft Matter

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Completed:

S1. Superhydrophobic macro-textures (see Gauthier et al. Nat. Commun. 2015)

S2. Bouncing Drops (see Carmigniani et al. Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci 2014)