Computational Flow Research Group

Computational fluid dynamics and numerical methods for high-speed and compressible flows.

NASA colorized schlieren photograph of interacting shock waves around two T-38 aircraft in supersonic formation. — Shock waves in supersonic formation flight. NASA AirBOS reference image, 2019.

Projects

Ongoing academic research · METU

Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann Method for Particle-Laden Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence

Two-way interactions between freely decaying turbulence and finite-size, non-spherical rigid particles, studied with a Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann Method and a DNS-generated initial velocity field.

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Proposed directions for CFRG

Compressible flow benchmarks — verification against canonical shock and expansion problems.
Numerical flux studies — comparisons of accuracy and shock resolution for compressible solvers.

Research

Interests and future directions

High-speed aerodynamics: Compressible and hypersonic flows, with an interest in how shocks interact with boundary layers and affect separation and wall loads.
Numerical methods: Conservative and high-order discretization, shock-capturing fluxes, and solver verification using reference solutions and grid refinement.
Aerothermodynamics: Computational study of heat transfer in high-speed flows, especially the relation between shock structure and surface heating.
Reacting flows: Coupling between transport, chemical kinetics and heat release in compressible flows, with an interest in high-speed combustion.

People

Mehmet Fazlıoğlu

Founder & Undergraduate Researcher

Mehmet Fazlıoğlu is an aerospace engineering undergraduate at METU. His research interests include computational fluid dynamics, high-speed and hypersonic aerodynamics, and numerical methods for compressible flows. He is particularly interested in shock–boundary-layer interactions, computational aerothermodynamics, and reacting flows.

Education: B.Sc. student in Aerospace Engineering
Middle East Technical University (METU), Türkiye

About

Computational Flow Research Group is an independent, student-led initiative with one member. Its focus is computational fluid dynamics and numerical methods, particularly for high-speed and compressible flows.

CFRG is not a METU laboratory. METU is the founder’s academic affiliation.

Contact

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