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Prof Frank Smith

The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
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The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) is one of the leading forces in the science of cities, generating new knowledge and insights for use in city planning, policy and design and drawing on the latest geospatial methods and ideas in computer-based visualisation and modelling. We are part of The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment.

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Research Summary

(a) Biomedical modelling, (b) industrial modelling and (c) social / human interaction modelling are the main thrusts here, with (a), (b) involving a background in the theory of solids and of fluid flows at medium to high Reynolds numbers (fast fluid flows), including the development of corresponding analysis and accurate computational fluid dynamics. The phenomena of interest include interaction, separation, instability, transition and turbulence, especially for slender layers and internal or external motions. The real applications are in industry, such as for food quality, flight safety, in biomedicine, such as for stroke, incontinence, and in atmospheric dynamics, machinery dynamics, engine flows, including in particular air flow past cars, helicopters and hills, water motion past ships, droplets and splashing. Two fundamental examples are to find the rapid flow past a bluff body or past a liquid droplet, at medium to high Reynolds numbers, possibly with flow separation and with transition from laminar to turbulent motion in the boundary layer and detached shear layers. The recent development (c) includes rumour propagation, crime spreading and consumer behaviour.

Research outputs

Short-scale break up in unsteady interactive layers: local development of normal pressure gradients and vortex wind-up 1998 Li L,Walker JDA,Bowles RI,Smith FT
The effect of smooth deceleration of the external stream on an aligned flat-plate boundary layer 1998 Smith FT,Elliott JW
The effect of smooth deceleration of the external stream on an aligned flat-plate boundary layer 1998 Elliott JW,Smith FT
Computational modelling of unsteady boundary layer processes 1997 Smith FT,Dodia B,Doorly DJ
Concerning three-dimensional flow past a tall building on flat ground 1997 Smith FT,Walton AG
Vortex/inflectional-wave interactions with weakly three-dimensional input 1997 Smith FT,Timoshin S
Singular modes in Rayleigh instability of three-dimensional streamwise-vortex flows 1997 Smith FT,Timoshin ST
Free transition onset in separations or wakes 1997 Smith FT
Blade-wake interactions and rotary boundary layers 1996 Smith FT,Timoshin SN
Composite, Navier-Stokes and Euler unsteady-flow computations in boundary layers. 1996 Smith FT
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Research activities

MEC - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents
MEC - Imaging , Modelling and Image-Guided Interventions
MEC - Implantable Devices