Professor A. Pollard, P.Eng, FASME

Queen's Research Chair in Fluid Dynamics and Multi-scale Phenomena

Director, Queen's M.Sc. Collaborative Programme in Computational Science and Engineering

Director, Sustainable Bioeconomy Centre at Queen's University

Cross-appointed to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
McLaughlin Hall, Room 208
Queen's University, Kingston, ON Canada K7L 3N6
Tel: (613) 533-2569
Fax: (613) 533-6489
pollard@me.queensu.ca

September 2009 : An internal report that reviews turbulent round jets may be found in the publications section.

Interested in graduate work in Fluid Dynamics? Professor Pollard's research interests are in computational and experimental fluid dynamics with particular interest in turbulence. Professor Pollard's research is to uncover the physics of turbulence and attendant physical transport processes. Early work included modelling (Reynolds and Favre averaged) of processes that have in the past included combustion and radiation. Current work includes simulation (Direct and Large Eddy Simulation) of free round and swirling jets and wall jets. Experiments on three dimensional wall jets, including wall-pressure-velocity correlations are currently underway. Analysis of data obtained from either DNS, LES or experiments is done using a variety of turbulence structure identification methods. Passive and active control of turbulence is used to enhance physical understanding.

Professor Pollard is a founding member, former Associate Director and Director of the Centre for Advanced Gas Combustion Technology of Queen's University. He is a founding member and former (inaugural) president of the CFD Society of Canada (http://www.cfdsc.ca). He is a founding member and the Principal Investigator of the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory, HPCVL, (http://www.hpcvl.org/) as well as a founding member, Chair of the Board of Directors and President of C3.ca Association Inc. (http://www.c3.ca). Compute/Calcul Canada (computecanada.org) builds on the success of C3.ca

A list of some publications is available here.

In Memory A.E. Perry