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Yaras"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Directed-Studies-Project-Opportunity.pdf\">Fall 2015\/Winter 2016 Research Opportunity &#8211; Directed Study MAAE 4917\/Independent Study MECH 5908.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experimental and computational study of fluid flows with application to aerospace, power generation and biomedicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>shear layer instability and transition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>forced convection heat transfer in heated supercritical fluids<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>transition and turbulence modelling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>vortical flows<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>separation bubbles and flow separation control<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>passive control of boundary layer transition and turbulence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>aerodynamic optimization of lift-generating surfaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>aerodynamic optimization of lobed mixers and diffusing bends<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>axial-turbine blade aerodynamics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>design optimization of a novel hydrokinetic turbine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0study of blood flow in the ascending aorta, the aortic arch and the \u00a0descending thoracic aorta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brinkerhoff, J.R., Yaras, M.I., 2014, \u201cNumerical Investigation of the Generation and Growth of Coherent Flow Structures in a Triggered Turbulent Spot,\u201d accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dave, N., Azih, C., Yaras, M.I., 2013, \u201cA DNS Study on the Effects of Convex Streamwise Curvature on Coherent Structures in a Turbulent Boundary Layer with Supercritical Water,\u201d Int. 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