Laboratorium voor Aero en Hydrodynamica Leeghwaterstraat 21 |
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Interests
I am primarily interested in experimental studies of hydrodynamic stability and bifurcation phenomena in fluid systems. Currently I am investigating transition to turbulence in pipe flow. Previous studies were concerned with MHD convection in liquid gallium and multiplicity of states in Rayleigh Bénard convection.
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 Pipe
Publicity
Scientific American (Nov 2004) |
B. Hof, P.G.J. Lucas, T.Mullin,
"Flow state multiplicity in convection", Physics of Fluids, 11, 2815 (1999)B.Hof & T.Mullin, "Critical dynamics in
oscillatory convection." Magnetohydrodynamics, 37, pp.119-126 (2001)B.Hof, A.Juel & T.Mullin, "Magnetohydrodynamic damping
of convective flows in gallium", J.Fluid Mech., 482, pp 163-179 (2003)B.Hof, A.Juel & T.Mullin, " Scaling of the turbulence transition & threshold in a pipe" Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, 244502,
(2003)B.Hof, C.W.H. van Doorne, J. Westerweel, F.T.M. Nieuwstadt, H.Wedin, R.Kerswell, F. Waleffe, H. Faisst and B. Eckhardt "An experimental observation of travelling waves in pipe flow" Science 305 1594 (2004)
B.Hof, A.Juel, L.J. Zhao, D. Henry, H. Ben Hadid & T. Mullin "On the onset of oscillatory convection in molten gallium", J. Fluid Mech. 515, 391-413 (2004)
B.Hof, L.J.Zhao, A.Juel, D.Henry, T.Mullin & H. Ben Hadid, "MHD damping of the oscillatory instability in a low Pr convection experiment.", in preparation