Chris Keylock, Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Loughborough University, has delivered an international seminar as part of a series run by the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society.

On 1 July, Professor Chris Keylock from Loughborough’s School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering led the Australasian Fluid Mechanics' Seminar, the leading seminar series for fluid mechanics researchers across Australasia. This year’s invited speakers include academics from globally renowned universities such as Oxford, Edinburgh, Otago, Delhi and Hong Kong.

In his talk, Enhancing understanding of turbulent flows using the Schur decomposition of the velocity gradients, Professor Keylock discussed new ways to understand turbulence - the complex and unpredictable movement of fluids such as air and water. His research offers innovative insights into how turbulent flows behave, which has the potential to support the development of more accurate computer models and better tools for tackling real-world challenges in engineering and environmental management.  

Professor Chris Keylock is an internationally recognised researcher whose work focuses on understanding turbulence and developing new mathematical approaches to analysing complex systems. Having collaborated with leading researchers and institutions around the world, his research has applications across engineering, environmental science and water management. In 2017, he, and colleagues from the Universities of Melbourne and Southampton, received the Fluid Dynamics Research Prize from the Japanese Society of Fluid Mechanics in recognition of their ‘introduction of a novel approach to a long-standing problem of wide interest.’