Peter Bradshaw

Thomas V. Jones Professor Emeritus of Engineering
Thermosciences Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Degrees

B.A. Cambridge University - Aeronautical Engineering (1957)

Fellow, Royal Society of London, 1981

D.Sc. (Hon.) Exeter University, 1990

Distinguished Lecturer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1992-1993

Fluid Dynamics Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1994

Research Interests

Complex turbulent flows, turbulence modeling, large-eddy simulation, experimental techniques and wind-tunnel design.
Author or co-author of over 200 papers and six books in the above areas.

 

 

 

Publications

P. Bradshaw and C.U. Buice, "Inclined Impinging Jets in Crossflow", AIAA-96-0204, 1996.

P. Bradshaw, B.E. Launder and J.L. Lumley, "Collaborative Testing of Turbulence Models", J. Fluids Engg 118, 243, 1996.

P. Bradshaw, "Turbulence in Compressible Flow - Physics and Modeling", J. Jap. Soc. Fluid Mech. 15, 354, 1996.

P. Bradshaw, "Turbulence Modeling with Application to Turbomachinery", Prog. Aerospace Sci. 32, 575, 1996.

P. Bradshaw, "The Understanding and Prediction of Turbulent Flow - 1996" (presented at Engineering Foundation Conference on Turbulent Heat Transfer, San Diego 1996), Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 18, 45, 1997.

B.J. Cantwell, J. Chacin and P. Bradshaw, "On the Dynamics of Turbulent Boundary Layers", in "Self-Sustaining Mechanisms of Wall Turbulence" (Advances in Fluid Mech. vol. 15, ed. R.L. Panton), Computational Mech. Publications, 1997, p. 365.

J.S. Chow, G.G. Zilliac and P. Bradshaw, "Mean and Turbulence Measurements in the Near Field of a Wingtip Vortex", AIAA J. 35, 1561, 1997.

F.T.M. Nieuwstadt and P. Bradshaw, "Similarities and Differences in Turbulent Boundary-Layer, Pipe and Channel Flows", Boundary-Layer Separation in Aircraft Aerodynamics (R.A.W.M. Henkes and P.G. Bakker, eds.), Delft Univ. Press, p. 15, 1997.

D.M. Bott and P. Bradshaw, "Effect of High Free-Stream Turbulence on Boundary-Layer Skin Friction and Heat Transfer", AIAA 98-0531, 1998 (more detail in Stanford Univ. M.E. Dept Rept. MD-75, 1997).

P. Bradshaw, "Highlights of Turbulence Modeling", presented at ASME International Mech. Engg Conference and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, 1998. No written paper - transcript of slides can be viewed or downloaded in .html, PostScript, or pdf format*. Note that, as requested by ASME, this lecture is at advanced graduate level, not state-of-the-art.....

S.G. Saddoughi, P. Koumoutsakos, P. Bradshaw and N.N. Mansour, "Investigations of `On Demand' Vortex Generators", Stanford/Ames Center for Turb. Res. CTR Ms. 171, 1998.

 

P. Bradshaw, "The Best Turbulence Models for Engineers", in Modeling Complex Turbulent Flows - ICASE 1997 Symposium (M.D. Salas, J.N. Hefner and L. Sakell, eds.), Kluwer, p. 9, 1999.

B.A. Younis and P. Bradshaw, "A Rational Model for the Triple Velocity Correlations", Presented at Am. Phys. Soc. DFD meeting, 1999.

F. Nicoud and P. Bradshaw, "A Velocity Transformation for Heat and Mass Transfer", Phys. Fluids 12, 237, 2000.

P. Bradshaw, "A Note on `Critical Roughness Height' and `Transitional Roughness'", Phys. Fluids 12, 1611, 2000.

P. Bradshaw, "Turbulence Modeling for High Reynolds Number Separated Flows", in NASA/CR-2001-210841, ICASE Interim Rept. 37 "Turbulence Modeling Workshop",

 

 

 

updated 9/18/07