Publications

Here are a few articles that represent the breadth of research activity.

2012

A-M. Shinneeb and A. Pollard, Investigation of the Flow Physics in Human Pharynx/Larynx Region, Experiments in Fluids, In press, July 2012
C.G. Ball, H. Fellouah and A. Pollard, The Flow Field of a Turbulent Round Jet, Progress in Aerospace Sciences 50:1-26, February, 2012.
L. Wei and A. Pollard, Direct numerical simulation of low Mach number turbulent wall bounded flow with favourable and adverse pressure gradients, J. Turbulence, DOI: 10.1080/14685248.2011.652305 February 2012.
A. Pollard, M. Uddin, A. Shinneeb and C. Ball, Recent Advances and Key Challenges in Investigations of the Flow Inside Human Oro-Pharyngeal-Laryngeal Airway Invited article for Special Issue of Multi-disciplinary CFD in Intl J. CFD, C. Mavriplis (ed) May 2012 DOI:10.1080/10618562.2012.668616
A-M. Shinneeb and A. Pollard, Identification of Vortical Structures inside the Human Pharynx/Larynx Region from POD-Reconstructed Velocity Fields, Experiments in Fluids, March 2012 DOI: 10.1007/s00348-012-1293-5.
A. Duncan, A. Pollard and H. Fellouah, Torrefied Biomass Pellets through the use of Experimental Design, J. Applied Energy, March 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.03.035,
R. Andrews, A. Pollard, and J. Pearce, Improved parametric empirical determination of module short circuit current for modelling and optimization of solar photovoltaic systems, Solar Energy, , May 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2012.04.016

2011

D. Bespalko, A. Pollard and M. Uddin, Analysis of the pressure fluctuations from an LBM simulation of turbulent channel flow, Computers and Fluids, October 2011 doi:10.1016/j.compfluid.2011.10.008

L. Wei and A. Pollard, Direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent channel flows using discontinuous Galerkin method, Computers and Fluids, 47(1):85-100, 2011.

H. Raiesi, U. Piomelli and A. Pollard Evaluation of turbulence models using large-eddy simulation data, ASME, J. Fluids Engineering, February 2011 -- Volume 133, Issue 2, 021203 (10 pages) doi:10.1115/1.4003425

L. Wei and A. Pollard, Interactions among pressure, density, vorticity and their gradients in compressible turbulent channel flows, J. Fluid Mechanics, doi:10.1017/S0022112010006166, February 2011

2010

R.K. Rowe, A. Hoor and A. Pollard, Examination of a Method for Reducing the Temperature of MSW Landfill Liners, ASCE, J. Environmental Engineering, 136(8): 794-803. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000212 (2010)
D. Bespalko, A. Pollard and M. Uddin Direct numerical simulation of fully-developed turbulent channel flow using lattice Boltzmann method and analysis of OpenMP scalability, High Performance Computing Systems and Application, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume LNCS 5976, 2010, pp 1-19
L. Wei and A. Pollard, Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent flow with pressure gradients, Progress in Turbulence III, Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2008, Springer Proceedings in Physics , Vol. 131, Peinke, Joachim; Oberlack, Martin; Talamelli, Alessandro (Eds.) 2010

2009

H. Fellouah and A. Pollard, The velocity spectra and turbulence length scales distributions in the near to intermediate regions of a rounf turbulent free jet, Physics of Fluids, 21, 115101, 2009

H. Fellouah, C.G. Ball, A. Pollard, Reynolds number effects within the development region of a turbulent round free jet, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 52 (17-18):3943-3954 (2009)

V. Artemov, S.B. Beale, G. de Vahl Davis, M.P. Escudier, N. Fueyo, B.E. Launder, E. Leonardi, M.R. Malin, W.J. Minkowycz, S.V. Patankar, A. Pollard, W. Rodi, A. Runchal, S.P. Vanka, A tribute to D.B. Spalding and his contributions in science and engineering, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 52 (17-18):3884-3905 (2009)

2008

C.G. Ball, M. Uddin, A. Pollard, Mean flow structures inside the human upper airway, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 81(1-2):155-188 2008

C.G. Ball, M. Uddin and A. Pollard, High resolution turbulence modelling of airflow in an idealised human extra-thoracic airway, Computers and Fluids, 37(8):943-964, 2008
G. Fournier, F. Golanski and A. Pollard, A novel outflow boundary condition for incompressible laminar wall-bounded flows, J. Computational Physics, 227:7077-7082, 2008.

2007

M. Uddin and A. Pollard, Self-similarity of Co-Flowing Jets: The virtual origin, Physics of Fluids, 19, 068103_1-068103_4, June 2007.

2006

M. Uddin and A. Pollard, MPI Scalability of a Large Memory LES Code, Int’l Jn. High Performance Computing and Networks, 4(5-6):295-302, 2006

2005

A. Pollard, H.L.M. Ozem and E.W. Grandmaison, "Turbulent, swirling flow over an axisymmetric, constant radius surface", Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol 29, 493-509, 2005.

A. Johnstone, M. Uddin and A. Pollard, "'Calibration of hot-wire probes using non-uniform mean-velocity profiles", Experiments in Fluids, Vol 39, 525-532, 2005.

2004

A. F. Heenan, W. H. Finlay, B. Grgic, A. Pollard and P.K.P. Burnell, An Investigation of the Relationship Between the Flow Field and Regional Deposition in Realistic Extra-thoracic Airways, J. Aerosol Science 35(8) 1013-1023, 2004
A. Johnstone, M. Uddin, A. Pollard, A. Heenan and W. H. Finlay, The flow inside an idealised form of the human extra-thoracic airway, Experiments in Fluids, 37(5) 673-689, 2004
A. Benaissa, B. Fleck and A. Pollard, Wall Effects on Axi-symmetric Jet Evolution, Intl. J. Transport Phenomena, 6(4):323-331, 2004.

2003

H. Xu, M. Khalid and A. Pollard, Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flow in a Confined Square Annular Jet, Int’l. Jn. Computational Fluid Dynamics, 17(5):339-356, 2003
P. Lavoie and A. Pollard, Uncertainty Analysis of Four-sensor Hot-Wires and Their Data Reduction Schemes used in the Near Field of a Turbulent Jet, Experiments in Fluids, 34: 358-370, 2003.
A.F. Heenan, E. Matida, A. Pollard and W. Finlay, Experimental Measurements and Computational Modelling of the Flow Field in an Idealised Extra-thoracic Airway, Experiments in Fluids, 35:70-84, 2003.

P. Lavoie and A. Pollard, "Uncertainty analysis of four-sensor hot-wires and their data reduction schemes used in the near field of a turbulent jet", Experiments in Fluids, Vol 34, 358-370, 2003.

2002

S. McIlwain and A. Pollard, "LES of the effects of mild swirl on the near field of a round free jet", Physics of Fluids, Vol 14, No. 2, 2002.

2001

P. Lavoie and A. Pollard, "Analysis of four data reduction schemes applied to four-sensor hot-wire probes", 14th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Adelaide, Australia, Dec 9-14, 2001.

H. Xu and A. Pollard, "Large eddy simulation of annular duct flows", Physics of Fluids, Vol. 13, No. 11, pp3321-3337, 2001.