Alastair West Research Engineer (EngD ), EPSRC/British Energy funded		No photo added.
Research Interests: Unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics
Contact Details: : V-2 C Floor George Begg Building, : : alastair.west@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk :

EngD Progress

The effects of turbulent mixing and heat transfer in ageing Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) boilers will be conducted using an Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) approach. Once local conditions can be predicted with sufficient accuracy a simplified superheater boiler configuration will be modelled. These predictions will be later implemented into current boiler codes used at British Energy.

My first year transfer report contains a literature survey, a theoretical background and some results of initial test cases conducted to gain experience with Code_Saturne.

The Nuclear Engineering Doctorate (EngD) programme includes the following taught courses throughout the first two years:

• Postgraduate Diploma in Enterprise Management from Manchester Business School:

• Nuclear Technology Education Consortium (NTEC) Taught Modules:

• Professional Development Programme following UKSPEC

Availability

My timetable can be seen here.

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Research Output

Research Publications: Research Publications:

	Numerical Simulation of Wave-Structure Interaction wave energy conversion applications using Eulerian and Lagrangian CFD Methods, Westphalen J. Greaves D M. Hu Z Z, Omidvar P. Causon D M, Accepted for the 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Ocean energy, Spain., (2010)
	Numerical Simulation of Wave Energy Converters using Eulerian and Lagrangian CFD Methods, Westphalen J, Greaves D M, Hunt-Raby R, Williams C K, Taylor P H, Hu Z Z, Omidvar P, Causon D M, Mingham C G, Stansby P K, Rogers B D, Accepted for the 20th International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers Conference, Beijing China, (2010)
	Extreme Wave Loading on Offshore Wave Energy Devices using CFD: a Hierarchical Team Approach, Westphalen J, Greaves D M, Williams C K, Taylor P H, Causon D M, Mingham C G, Hu Z Z, Stansby P K, Rogers B D, Omidvar P, 8th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, (2009)

Theses, Dissertations and Technical Reports: Theses, Dissertations and Technical Reports:

Presentations: Presentations:

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pdf	TSFP8_Tube-Bank_Paper_from_Proceedings.pdf	manage	1304.9 K	2013-10-02 - 16:21	AlastairWest	ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR MODELLING FLOW OVER IN-LINE TUBE BANKS
pdf	WEST_2.pdf	manage	8321.3 K	2015-06-10 - 16:09	AlastairWest	On the Computational Modelling of Flow and Heat Transfer in In-line Tube Banks