Joshua Brinkerhoff
Associate Professor – UBC Okanagan
joshua.brinkerhoff@ubc.ca
Home department: UBC Okanagan School of Engineering, Mechanical
Website: Okanagan Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Research Interest
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Turbomachinery
- Multiphase Turbulent Flows
- Hydrogen
- Wind energy
- Biofluid mechanics
Current Research Work
- Laminar-to-Turbulent Transition
- Leading-edge effects in swept boundary layers
- Roughness and wake effects on growth of turbulent spots
- Direct numerical simulation
- Turbomachinery in the LNG Industry
- Predicting cavitation and transition in LNG turbomachinery
- Multiphase Turbulent Flows
- DNS of turbulence in fluidized bed reactors
- Effect of turbulence on mineral extraction from wastewater streams
- Air Quality Simulation
- Transition in buoyancy-dominated flows
- Pollutant transport in passively-ventilated buildings
- Dispersion of volatile gas or liquid spills in the atmosphere
- Biofluid Mechanics
- Simulations of airflow in the lungs
- Simulating the impact of lung disease on respiratory air flows
- Growth of turbulence in abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Wind Energy
- Leading-edge droops to enhance the performance of horizontal-axis wind turbines
- Energy harvesting from the wakes of highway vehicles via vertical-axis wind turbine
- Large eddy simulation of wind farm blockage and induction effects