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Professor (Emeritus) Andrew Pollard
Queen's Research Chair in Fluid Dynamics and Multi-scale Phenomena
Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
McLaughlin Hall, Room 208
130 Stuart Street
Queen's University, Kingston, ON Canada K7L 3N6
Cell/mobile: (613) 532-3920
pollarda@queensu.ca
Editor-in-chief, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
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NEW BOOK - Whither Turbulence and Big Data in the 21st Century? Edited by Pollard, Castillo, Danaila and Glauser. |
Recognitions:
- Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Alumni Achievement Medal, Academic Excellence, University of Waterloo (2017)
Some Background:
While Professor Pollard became Emeritus as at January 1, 2017 following a highly successful 40 year career in academe, he remains active in research; HOWEVER, HE IS NO LONGER TRAINING GRADUATE STUDENTS OR P.D. FELLOWS. Professor Pollard's research interests are in computational and experimental fluid dynamics with particular interest in turbulence. His research seeks to uncover the physics of turbulence and attendant physical transport processes. Early work included modelling (Reynolds and Favre averaged) of processes that have in the past included combustion and radiation. Current work includes simulation (Direct and Large Eddy Simulation) of free round jets, incipient separation, flow in spacer filled channels, channel flows subject compressibility and pressure gradients and flow in the human airway and heart. His group has used Discontinuous Galerkin methods, Lattice Boltzmann methods and finite volume methods for their simulations. Analysis of data obtained from either DNS, LES or experiments is done using a variety of turbulence structure identification methods. Passive and active control of turbulence is used to enhance physical understanding. Experimental facilities include stereo PIV and hot wire, a 3m long flying hot wire facility, a wall jet facility and a closed loop bio-fluid facility.
Professor Pollard was a founding member, Associate Director and Director of the Centre for Advanced Gas Combustion Technology of Queen's University. He was a founding member and inaugural president of the CFD Society of Canada (http://www.cfdsc.ca). He was a founding member and the Principal Investigator of the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory, which has evolved into the Centre for Advanced Computing, (http://cac.queensu.ca) as well as a founding member, Chair of the Board of Directors and President of C3.ca Association Inc. (http://www.c3.ca). Compute/Calcul Canada (computecanada.org) builds on the success of C3.ca. He was the inaugural Director of the Collaborative Master's Programme in Computational Science and Engineering as well as the inaugural Director of the Sustainable Bio-economy Centre.
Curriculum Vitae HERE
In Memory A.E. Perry