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Daniel Chung

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
science & technology
physical sciences
physics
technology
mechanics
physics, fluids & plasmas
turbulent boundary layers
direct numerical-simulation
turbulence simulation
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Daniel Chung.

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Unravelling the mysteries of turbulent drag at the air-sea interface

2021 - 2024
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UNDERSTANDING TURBULENT HEAT TRANSFER WITH PRACTICAL SURFACE CONDITIONS

2020 - 2023
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UNDERSTANDING ROUGH-WALL FLOWS AND TURBULENT MIXING FOR IMPROVED MODELS

In the absence of a reliable predictive capability for turbulent heat transfer, design engineers are currently forced to incorporate safety ..

2019 - 2021
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UNDERSTANDING ROUGH-WALL FLOWS AND TURBULENT MIXING FOR IMPROVED MODELS

In the absence of a reliable predictive capability for turbulent heat transfer, design engineers are currently forced to incorporate safety ..

2019 - 2021
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HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS, EXPERIMENTS AND DATA-DRIVEN MODEL DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL CONVECTION AND FLOW OVER ROUGH SURFACE APPLICATIONS

2018 - 2021
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Tailoring aircraft surface textures to minimise drag

This project aims to optimise textured surfaces for reducing fluid dynamic drag. The project builds on recent breakthroughs in drag-evaluati..

2017 - 2019
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Developing novel big-data based models for designing greener turbines

This project aims to improve the fuel efficiency of gas turbines, the backbone of power generation and aircraft propulsion, for efficient an..

2017 - 2020
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Developing novel big-data based models for designing greener turbines

This project aims to improve the fuel efficiency of gas turbines, the backbone of power generation and aircraft propulsion, for efficient an..

2016 - 2020
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Turbulent flow over surfaces with spatially varying roughness

This project aims to improve understanding of the effect of spatial roughness transitions on turbulent flows. Fluids flowing over non-smooth..

2016 - 2019
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Surface texture optimization for turbulent drag reduction

2016 - 2016
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Project Types

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Research Grant

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Daniel Chung.

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The smooth-wall-like behaviour of turbulence over drag-altering surfaces: a unifying virtual-origin framework

Joseph I Ibrahim, Garazi Gomez-de-Segura, Daniel Chung, Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Fluid Mechanics

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Coriolis effect on centrifugal buoyancy-driven convection in a thin cylindrical shell

Amirreza Rouhi, Detlef Lohse, Ivan Marusic, Chao Sun, Daniel Chung

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Fluid Mechanics

We study the effect of the Coriolis force on centrifugal buoyancy-driven convection in a rotating cylindrical shell with inner col..

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Interactions between scales in wall turbulence: phase relationships, amplitude modulation and the importance of critical layers

Ian Jacobi, Daniel Chung, Subrahmanyam Duvvuri, Beverley J McKeon

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Fluid Mechanics

We present a framework for predicting the interactions between motion at a single scale and the underlying stress fluctuations in ..

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Influence of riblet shapes on the occurrence of Kelvin-Helmholtz rollers

S Endrikat, D Modesti, R Garcia-Mayoral, N Hutchins, D Chung

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Fluid Mechanics

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Predicting the Drag of Rough Surfaces

Daniel Chung, Nicholas Hutchins, Michael P Schultz, Karen A Flack

Journal article  |  2021  |  Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Reliable full-scale prediction of drag due to rough wall-bounded turbulent fluid flow remains a challenge. Currently, the uncertai..

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Calculation of the mean velocity profile for strongly turbulent Taylor–Couette flow at arbitrary radius ratios

Pieter Berghout, Roberto Verzicco, Richard JAM Stevens, Detlef Lohse, Daniel Chung

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Taylor–Couette (TC) flow is the shear-driven flow between two coaxial independently rotating cylinders. In recent years, high-fide..

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Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Flow Over Various Riblet Shapes in Minimal-Span Channels

S Endrikat, D Modesti, M MacDonald, R Garcia-Mayoral, N Hutchins, D Chung

Journal article  |  2020  |  Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

Riblets reduce skin-friction drag until their viscous-scaled size becomes large enough for turbulence to approach the wall, leadin..

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Response of the temporal turbulent boundary layer to decaying free-stream turbulence

Melissa Kozul, R Jason Hearst, Jason P Monty, Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, Daniel Chung

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Fluid Mechanics

The turbulent boundary layer developing under a turbulence-laden free stream is numerically investigated using the temporal bounda..

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The effect of spanwise wavelength of surface heterogeneity on turbulent secondary flows

DD Wangsawijaya, R Baidya, D Chung, I Marusic, N Hutchins

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Fluid Mechanics

We examine the behaviour of turbulent boundary layers over surfaces composed of spanwise-alternating smooth and rough strips, wher..

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Turbulent flow over spanwise-varying roughness in a minimal streamwise channel

MX Xie, D Chung, N Hutchins

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 1522, Fourth Madrid Summer School on Turbulence 10 June to 12 July 2019, Madrid, Spain

All rights reserved. We report direct numerical simulations in a minimal streamwise domain of turbulent channel flow over spanwise..

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Keyword Analysis

Expanding Knowledge
Interdisciplinary Engineering
Atmosphere and Weather
Environmentally Sustainable Transport
Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity
Zoology

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2019

Nobuhide Kasagi Award for "novel numerical simulations and insightful analysis to answer fundamental questions in turbulence"

Eleventh International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP11), Southampton, UK
2016

Gallery of Fluid Motion Award for visual aesthetic and technical insight of poster (co-authors: G. Matheou, J. Teixeira)

American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Portland
2011

Milton Van Dyke Award for visual aesthetic and technical insight of poster (co-author: G. Matheou)

American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Baltimore
2009

W. F. Ballhaus Prize for outstanding aeronautics doctoral dissertation

Graduate Aerospace Laboratories California Institute of Technology
2009

R. B. Chapman Memorial Award for distinguished hydrodynamics research

Division of Engineering and Applied Science California Institute of Technology
2004

A. E. Perry Memorial Prize in fluid mechanics

Faculty of Engineering University of Melbourne
2004

Douglas Fellowship

California Institute of Technology

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Member

Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society

Member

American Physical Society

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Aeronautics)

California Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics)

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Computer Science

University of Melbourne

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