Dr Melika Gul
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Lecturer in Experimental Fluid Mechanics
+44 114 222 7802
Full contact details
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Room D246
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Dr Melika Gul is a lecturer in Experimental Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. She specialises in experimental fluid mechanics, turbulence and optical flow diagnostics.
She received her BS and MS degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She obtained her PhD in Fluid Mechanics (Process and Energy Department/Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (2019).
Before joining Sheffield, Melika was a Research Associate in the Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics group at the University of Southampton (2018-2021).
- Research interests
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Turbulent flows
Flow control/drag reduction
Unsteady aerodynamics
Wind energy
Environmental flows
Optical flow diagnostics
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Experimental observations on turbulent boundary layers subjected to a step change in surface roughness. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 947.
- Revisiting rough-wall turbulent boundary layers over sand-grain roughness. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 911.
- Internal shear layers and edges of uniform momentum zones in a turbulent pipe flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 901.
- Experimental investigation of torque hysteresis behaviour of Taylor–Couette Flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 836, 635-648.
- An Experimental Study on Active Flow Control Using Synthetic Jet Actuators over S809 Airfoil. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 524, 012101-012101.
Conference proceedings papers
- Flow Control with Synthetic Jet Actuators under Adverse Pressure Gradient Laminar Boundary Layer. 32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference
- Experimental observations on turbulent boundary layers subjected to a step change in surface roughness. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 947.