London, England, United Kingdom
Maarten is a Professor in Urban Fluid Mechanics in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College. His research involves the simulation and mathematical modeling of problems in environmental fluid mechanics related to buoyancy-driven flows, turbulent boundary layers and free-surface flows. Current projects include: 1. The physics of urban boundary layers, particularly associated with non-neutral boundary layers and the effects of trees. 2. The development of next-generation simulation facilities for the master planning and detailed design stages, such as high-resolution Urban LES facility. 3. Fundamental studies on turbulent buoyancy driven flows using direct numerical simulation (DNS), focusing on mixing and turbulent entrainment. Areas of relevance are the spreading of jets and plumes, the atmospheric boundary layer and oceanic mixed layer and clouds. There are regular opportunities for PhD and Post-doctoral positions in my group so contact me in case you are interested.
Director of Research for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London.
I work on understanding transport processes in fluids, with application areas such as urban climate, air quality, atmospheric convection, building ventilation (stratified environments, plumes/jets, exchange flows), water quality in distribution systems (mass transfer) and oceanography. These applications generally involve wall-bounded turbulence and buoyancy effects, which my group and I study using Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) and Large-Eddy Simulation (LES).
Direct and Large-eddy simulation, buoyancy driven flow, fluid mechanics, high performance computing