Prof Frank Smith
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
| The effects of nonsymmetry in a branching flow network | 2009 | Ovenden NC,Smith FT,Wu GX |
| Modelling Bladder Collapse and Urethra Response | 2009 | Smith F,Glavin S,Tziannaros M |
| The Dynamics of Persuasion | 2008 | Smith FT,Curtis JP |
| Trapping of air in impact between a body and shallow water. | 2008 | Smith FT,Korobkin AA,Ellis AS |
| A Continuum Model for a Chute Flow of Grains | 2008 | Smith FT,Ellis AS |
| Surface tension effects on interaction between two fluids near a wall. | 2008 | Vanden-Broeck JM,Smith FT |
| Minimisation of Heat Loss by Optimal Deployment of Spare Insulation | 2008 | Curtis JP,Smith FT |
| Multi-branching three-dimensional flow with substantial changes in vessel shapes | 2008 | Bowles RI,Ovenden NC,Smith FT |
| Flow and thermal properties in full-zone thermocapillary liquid bridges | 2008 | Smith FT,Davis DAR |
| Turbulent flow on a planar moving belt and a rotating disk: modelling and comparisons | 2007 | Smith FT,McDarby JM |
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Research activities
| MEC - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents |
| MEC - Imaging , Modelling and Image-Guided Interventions |
| MEC - Implantable Devices |