Metin Yaras
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hydroelectric power, Turbomachinery
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 1174 |
| Email: | metin.yaras@carleton.ca |
| Office: | Mackenzie, Room 3254 |
Research Interests:
Experimental and computational study of fluid flows with application to aerospace, power generation and biomedicine.
Research
- shear layer instability and transition
- forced convection heat transfer in heated supercritical fluids
- transition and turbulence modelling
- vortical flows
- separation bubbles and flow separation control
- passive control of boundary layer transition and turbulence
- aerodynamic optimization of lift-generating surfaces
- aerodynamic optimization of lobed mixers and diffusing bends
- axial-turbine blade aerodynamics
- design optimization of a novel hydrokinetic turbine
- study of blood flow in the ascending aorta, the aortic arch and the descending thoracic aorta
