Prof Brian Sawford - Researcher Profile

Biography

Brian works in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University as a Professor.

Some of his research interests include:

• Fluid mechanics
• Turbulence and turbulent mixing particularly with application to air pollution
• Lagrangian theory and Lagrangian stochastic modelling of turbulent dispersion
• Mixing and chemistry

Keywords

Fluid mechanics, Lagrangian theory , Mixing and chemistry, Turbulence and turbulent mixing

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Imperial College

Year awarded: 1973

Unknown

Institution: Imperial College

Year awarded: 1973

Publications

Journal Articles

Sawford, B., Yeung, P., 2011, Kolmogorov similarity scaling for one-particle Lagrangian statistics, Physics Of Fluids [P], vol 23, issue 9, American Institute of Physics, Melville New York USA, pp. 1-4.

Hackl, J., Yeung, P., Sawford, B., 2011, Multi-particle and tetrad statistics in numerical simulations of turbulent relative dispersion, Physics Of Fluids [P], vol 23, issue 6, American Institute of Physics, Melville New York USA, pp. 1-20.

Sawford, B., Yeung, P., 2010, Conditional relative acceleration statistics and relative dispersion modelling : SSSubmitted for the special issue dedicated to S. B. pope, Flow Turbulence And Combustion [P], vol 85, issue 3-4, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 345-362.

Sawford, B.L., De Bruyn-Kops, S.M., 2008, Direct numerical simulation and Lagrangian modeling of joint scalar statistics in ternary mixing, Physics of Fluids, vol 20, issue 9, American Institute of Physics, Circulation & Fulfillment Div, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Ste 1 N O 1, Melville, NY, USA 11747-4501, pp. 095106-1-095106-13.

Sawford, B.L., Yeung, P.K., Hackl, J.F., 2008, Reynolds number dependence of relative dispersion statistics in isotropic turbulence, Physics of Fluids, vol 20, issue 6, American Institute of Physics, Circulation & Fulfillment Div, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Ste 1 N O !, Melville, NY USA 11747-4501, pp. 065111-1-065111-13.

Lamorgese, A.G., Pope, S.B., Yeung, P.K., Sawford, B.L., 2007, A conditionally cubic-Gaussian stochastic Lagrangian model for acceleration in isotropic turbulence, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol 582, Cambridge University Press, New York USA, pp. 423-448.

Sawford, B.L., 2006, A study of the connection between exit-time statistics and relative dispersion using a simple Lagrangian stochastic model, Journal of Turbulence, vol 7, issue 13, Institute of Physics, Bristol UK, pp. 1-10.

Sawford, B.L., 2006, Lagrangian modeling of scalar statistics in a double scalar mixing layer, Physics of Fluids, vol 18, issue 8, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury USA, pp. 1-11.

Sawford, B.L., 2006, Lagrangian stochastic modelling of chemical reaction in a scalar mixing layer, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, vol 118, issue 1, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht Holland, pp. 1-23.

Yeung, P.K., Pope, S.B., Sawford, B.L., 2006, Reynolds number dependence of Lagrangian statistics in large numerical simulations of isotropic turbulence, Journal of Turbulence, vol 7, issue 58, Taylor & Francis, Bristol UK, pp. 1-12.

Sawford, B.L., Yeung, P.K., Borgas, M.S., 2005, Comparison of backwards and forwards relative dispersion in turbulence, Physics of Fluids, vol 17, issue 9, American Institute of Physics, Melville USA, pp. 1-9.

Luhar, A.K., Sawford, B.L., 2005, Micromixing modelling of concentration fluctuations in inhomogeneous turbulence in the convective boundary layer, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, vol 114, issue 1, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 1-30.

Luhar, A., Sawford, B.L., 2005, Micromixing modelling of mean and fluctuating scalar fields in the convective boundary layer, Atmospheric Environment, vol 39, issue 35, Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Kidlington UK, pp. 6673-6685.

Sawford, B.L., 2004, Conditional scalar mixing statistics in homogeneous isotropic turbulence, New Journal of Physics, vol 6, issue 55, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol UK, pp. 1-30.

Borgas, M.S., Sawford, B.L., Xu, S., Donzis, D.A., Yeung, P., 2004, High Schmidt number scalars in turbulence: structure functions and Lagrangian theory, Physics of Fluids, vol 16, issue 11, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury USA, pp. 3888-3899.

Sawford, B.L., Yeung, P.K., Borgas, M.S., Vedula, P., La Porta, A., Crawford, A.M., Bodenschatz, E., 2003, Conditional and unconditional acceleration statistics in turbulence, Physics of Fluids, vol 15, American Institute of Physics, Circulation & Fulfillment Div, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Ste 1 N O 1, Melville, NY 11747-4501 USA, pp. 3478-3489.

Yeung, P.K., Sawford, B.L., 2002, Random Sweeping Hypothesis for Passive Scalars in Isotropic Turbulence, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol 459, Cambridge Univesity Press, 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, USA, pp. 129-138.

Conference Proceedings

Sawford, B.L., Borgas, M.S., Yeung, P.K., 2004, Lagrangian modelling of turbulent diffusion in the atmosphere - recent developments, IUTAM Symposium on Reynolds Number Scaling in Turbulent Flow, 11/9/2002-13/9/2002, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 37-44.

Sawford, B.L., 2004, Modelling chemical reaction in a scalar mixing layer, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 13 December 2004 to 17 December 2004, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 1-4.

Yeung, P.K., Xu, S., Borgas, M.S., Sawford, B.L., 2004, Scaling of multi-particle Lagrangian statistics in Direct Numerical Simulations, IUTAM Symposium on Reynolds Number Scaling in Turbulent Flow, 11/09/02-13/09/02, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 163-168.