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| Senior Lecturer |
| School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering | |
| George Begg Building | Tel: +44 (0) 161 306 8728 |
| The University of Manchester | Fax: +44 (0) 161 306 3723 |
| Manchester M60 1QD |
E-mail: Tim.Craft@manchester.ac.uk |
Bio-Sketch
B.A. in Mathematics, Keble College, Oxford, (1983-1986).
M.Sc. in Math. Modelling and Numerical Analysis, Keble College, Oxford, (1986-1987).
Ph.D. in Second-Moment Closure Turbulence Modelling, UMIST, (1987-1991).
Visiting Researcher, CERFACS, Toulouse, (1991).
Research Associate, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UMIST, (1991-1994).
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UMIST, (1994-1999).
Lecturer, Dept. of Mechanical Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering, UMIST, (1999-)
(Subsequently at the University of Manchester, following the merger of UMIST and
the Victoria University of Manchester in 2004).
Teaching
- Fluid mechanics
- Turbulence modelling
- CFD
Online teaching material.
Administrative Responsibilities
- Mech. Eng. 1st year tutor
Research
I belong to the
Tubulence Mechanics and CFD research group.
My research interests are in the development and application of mathematical models
for predicting turbulent momentum and scalar transport.
Selected Recent Publications
- Craft, T.J., Launder, B.E., (2001),
Principles and performance of TCL-based second-moment closures,
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 66, 355-372.
- Craft, T.J., Launder, B.E., (2002),
Closure modelling near the two-component limit,
in Closure Strategies for Turbulent and Transitional Flows,
(Eds. B.E. Launder and N.D. Sandham), pp. 102-126, CUP.
- Craft, T.J., (2002),
Modelling of Separating and Impinging Flows,
in Closure Strategies for Turbulent and Transitional Flows,
(Eds. B.E. Launder and N.D. Sandham), pp. 341-360, CUP.
- Craft, T.J., Launder, B.E., (2002),
Application of TCL modelling to stratified flows,
in Closure Strategies for Turbulent and Transitional Flows,
(Eds. B.E. Launder and N.D. Sandham), pp. 407-423, CUP.
- Craft, T.J., Gerasimov, A.V., Iacovides, H., Launder, B.E., (2002),
Progress in the generalization of wall-function treatments,
Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow, 23, 148-160.
- Craft, T.J., Gerasimov, A.V., Iacovides, H., Kidger, J.W., Launder, B.E., (2004),
The negatively buoyant turbulent wall jet: performance of alternative options in RANS
modelling, Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow, 25, 809-823.
- Craft, T.J., Gant, S.E., Iacovides, H., Launder, B.E., (2004),
A new wall function strategy for complex turbulent flows,
Numerical Heat Transfer, 45, 301-318.
- Suga, K., Craft, T.J., Iacovides, H., (2005),
A generalized analytical wall function,
Trans. Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers B, 71, No. 711(2005-11),
pp. 113-121.
- Craft, T.J., Gant, S.E., Gerasimov, A.V., Iacovides, H., Launder, B.E., (2006),
Development and application of wall-function treatments for turbulent forced and mixed
convection flows, Fluid Dyn. Res., 38, 127-144.
- Craft,T.J., Gerasimov, A.V., Launder, B.E., Robinson, C.M.E., (2006),
A computational study of the near-field generation and decay of wingtip vortices,
Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow, 27, 684-695.
- Suga, K., Craft, T.J., Iacovides, H., (2006),
An analytical wall-function for turbulent flows and heat transfer over rough walls,
Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow, 27, 852-866.
- Revell, A.J., Benhamadouche, S., Craft, T.J., Laurence, D.R., (2006),
A stress-strain lag eddy viscosity model for unsteady mean flow,
Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow, 27, 821-830.