PhD Student at Whittle Laboratory
1 JJ Thomson Avenue,
University of Cambridge
CB3 0DY
Research Interests
CFD, Transition to turbulence, Flow instabilities
Teaching
4A2 CFD Demonstration
Collaborators
Key Publications
Tucker P., Jefferson-Loveday R ., Tyacke J., and Nagabhushana Rao V., 2012, “Zonal RANS-LES modelling for turbines in aeroengines,” Computational Thermal Sciences 4, 497-506
Nagabhushana Rao V. and Ramamurthi K., 2010. “Role of axisymmetric axial velocity gradients in nonlinear disintegration of liquid sheets,” Fluid Dynamics Research 42, 065505.
Nagabhushana Rao V. and Ramamurthi K., 2009. “Internal instability of thin liquid sheets,” Physics of Fluids 21, 092106.
Gururaja Rao C., Nagabhushana Rao V. and Krishna Das C., 2008, “Simulation studies on Multi-mode Heat Transfer from an open cavity with a flush-mounted discrete heat source,” Heat and Mass Transfer 44, 727-737.
Conference Proceedings
Nagabhushana Rao V., Tucker P. G., Jefferson-Loveday R., and Coull J. D., “Investigation of wake induced transition in low-pressure turbines using large eddy simulation,” Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo, San Antonio, Texas (accepted)
Nagabhushana Rao V., Jefferson-Loveday R., Tucker P. G. and Lardeau S., “Large eddy simulations in Turbines: Influence of Roughness and free-stream Turbulence,” Proceedings of Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, September 24-27, 2012
Richard Jefferson-Loveday., Nagabhushana Rao V., James C. Tyacke and Paul G. Tucker., “High-order DES and zonal LES of a Labyrinth seal,” 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, January 09-12, 2012.
