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W
Malalasekera
BSc PhD DIC
Professor of Computational
Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer
Phone: (01509) 227556
Email: w.malalasekera@lboro.ac.uk |
 Background
Born in Sri Lanka, attended
St. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, Colombo.
University Education at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Graduated
1983
Obtained Ph.D. and D.I.C. from Imperial College of Science Technology
and Medicine, University of London, 1988.
1984 - 85: Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University
of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
1985 - 89: Research Assistant/Postdoctoral RA (1989) at the Dept. of
Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London.
Joined Loughborough University as a lecturer in 1989.
Broad
Interests and Expertise
Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) modelling and applications
Radiative Heat Transfer (Monte Carlo, Discrete Transfer and Discrete
Ordinates and YIX methods)
Combustion modelling and furnace simulations
CFD simulation of I.C. engine combustion
Research
Interests and Activities
Development of radiation calculation
techniques for complex geometries (Monte Carlo, Discrete Transfer, Discrete
Ordinate and YIX) including spectral calculations
Modelling of turbulence/radiation interaction in combustion
Development of turbulent combustion models (RANS and LES)
CFD modelling of industrial flow problems in general
External
Activities
Member of Editorial Board of
the Journal, “Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid
Mechanics”.
Publications
School
Research Groups
Applied
Aerodynamics
Links
Books – Authored: Versteeg,
H.K. and Malalasekera, W., “An Introduction to Computational Fluid
Dynamics : The Finite Volume Method”, Second Edition, Pearson
Education Ltd., Harlow, Essex, UK, 26 January 2007, 520 pp, ISBN 0-978-0-13-127498-3.
http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/Bookshop/detail.asp?item=100000000074355
or http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Computational-Fluid-Dynamics-Finite/dp/0131274988/
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