Dr Massoud Tatar

Background

Curious to explore and learn new topics in aerodynamics, fluid flow and multiphysics problems. I deeply studied boundary layer stability, transition and turbulence spectrum, LES concept and Spectral CFD methods during my MSc and then continued my PhD research in boundary layer transition over a pitching-plunging airfoil via LES and intermittentcy-based URANS and, compared the results with the experimental surface pressure data and hot-film outputs, employing a novel method to identify boundary layer transition from surface pressure data, useful for flow control and morphing wings. In addition to my academic research, I also accomplished a wide range of industrial research projects since 2008 including:

1- Microwave heating coupled with fluid flow, heat and mass transfer and radiation energy loss

2- Unsteady transitional and turbulent Aerodynamics, computational aeroacoustics, conjugate heat transfer and coupling the flow effects with an acoustic field

3- Numerical modelling of high temperature and pressure plasma reactor

4- Magnetohydrodynamic flow in an arc plasma reactor combined with chemical reactions

5- Unsteady aerodynamic modelling of the maneuvering SDM up to post stall AOAs using CFD and machine learning

6- Aerodynamic system identification and stability derivatives computation from multi-axis maneuvers implemented in CFD

7- Aerodynamic system identification and stability derivatives computation from flight test data

8- Flow-induced noise calculation using eddy resolving models

9- Energy harvesting from low speed fluid flows passing over a VIV-WIV configuration

10- Body force modeling of centrifugal and axial turbomachinery blades

11- CFD of liquid sloshing phenomenon, computation of sloshing frequencies, free surface capturing and time history of flow forces using multiphase approach

12- Study of high-temperature reacting boundary layer flow and validation of wall surface heat flux using CFD (fluid, heat and mass transfer)

13- Numerical heat transfer modelling of thermal insulators

14- Aeroelasticity of plates and aircraft wing using low and high fidelity numerical techniques

15- Performance map computation of marine and aeroengine propellers

16- Cavitation and particle-laden turbulent flows

17- Conjugate heat transfer and heterogeneous reacting flow

Research opportunities

- Aerodynamic Flows (subsonic to hypersonic reacting flows, steady and unsteady linear/nonlinear modelling from CFD and flight test data

- Hydrodynamic Flows (cavitation, sloshing, free-surface wave/buoy interaction)

- Transition and turbulence modelling

- High-temperature reacting flows

- Conjugate heat and mass transfer flows

- Machine learning applications and reduced-order modelling of nonlinear flow problems