About Fluid Flows

The topic of Fluid Flows is a broad one and one which can pose challenges to companies operating within many sectors such as Healthcare, Industrial Biotechnology, Energy, Construction and Food and Drink.  There is a wealth of expertise in this area available across the University to help solve process challenges, in modelling and simulation of fluids and the design of complex fluids to optimise flow properties.

Fluids include matter in any state apart from ‘solid’ and can therefore exist as a liquid, gas, plasma or multi-component fluid mixture.  How these fluids exist in motion and are affected by the forces resulting from their movement is a particular area of expertise at the University of Edinburgh.

The University’s Fluid Dynamics Group is a newly formed cross disciplinary network of academics whose research covers the understanding and modelling of the movement of liquids and gases through complex systems

Fluid dynamics is relevant to a wide variety of fields including acoustics, bio-medicine, aerodynamics, turbo-machinery, engines, air/sea/land vehicles, renewable energy, weather systems, floods, fires, cosmology, and astrophysics.

At the University of Edinburgh there are more than 50 academics and estimated more than 200 postgraduate researchers across the Colleges of Science & Engineering and Medicine & Veterinary Medicine who conduct research in fluid dynamics which can be harnessed by companies seeking innovative approaches to company challenges.