Maarten van Reeuwijk

Maarten van Reeuwijk

Principal investigator · since 2007-09

Professor of Urban Fluid Mechanics and Director of Research in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London, and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. His group studies how turbulence carries heat, particles and pollutants across environmental flows — from canonical jets, plumes and gravity currents to cloud edges, urban microclimates, and building ventilation — combining Direct Numerical Simulation, Large-Eddy Simulation, reduced-order theory, and increasingly machine-learning surrogates. Principal developer of the open-source urban LES code uDALES and a founding director of the Urban Fluid Mechanics Special Interest Group, which has run twelve UFM workshops to date. Trained at TU Delft (MSc 2002 in Fluid Mechanics, PhD 2007 on direct simulation of turbulent thermal convection), he joined Imperial as a Lecturer the same year and has held a personal chair since 2022. He has supervised more than twenty PhD students and postdoctoral researchers across these themes, held visiting professorships at École Centrale de Lyon, and contributed to the UK Chief Medical Officer's 2022 annual report on air quality.

Areas:
Urban fluid mechanics Multiphase flows Turbulence & mixing
Projects:
NERC: ASSURE NERC: Droplet dynamics in intermittent, cloud-turbulence EPSRC: UK Turbulence Consortium EPSRC: EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics across Scales EPSRC: Multi-scale dynamics at the turbulent/non-turbulent interface of jets and plumes EPSRC: The UK Turbulence Consortium SPF: Turbulence at the exascale SPF: Breathing City SPF: Tackling Air Pollution at School EPSRC: UK Turbulence Consortium EU: UrbanAIR
Tags:
Air QualityBiofluidsBoundary LayersCloudsConvectionDispersionDNSDragEntrainmentExperimentsGravity CurrentsGroundwaterIBMIndoorIntegralJetsLESMachine LearningMass TransferMicroclimateMixingMultiscaleNWPParameterizationParticlesPlumesRANSRayleigh–TaylorSEBSensingShadingSPARKLEStratificationTNTIuDALESUrbanUrban formVegetationVentilationWater Management

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