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Dr. Nigel B. Kaye
Office: 314 Lowry Hall
Phone: (864) 656-5941
FAX: (864) 656-2670
email Dr. Kaye
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
Areas of Interest:
Environmental fluid mechanics
Heat and pollutant transport in buildings
Mixing in stratified flows
Buoyancy driven shear flows
Education:
B.E., 1994 University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ph.D., 1998, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Classes typically taught:
EM 201 - Engineering Mechanics - Statics
CE 208 - CE Dynamics
CE 341 - Applied Fluid Mechanics
CE 807 - Wind Engineering
Professional Society Membership:
American Physical Society
American Geophysical Union
Sample Publications:
Kaye N. B. "Turbulent plumes in stratified environments: A review of recent work." Atmosphere Ocean (Accepted)
Kaye N. B. & Hunt G. R. "Smoke filling time for a small fire in a room: the effect of ceiling height to floor width aspect ratio." Fire Safety Journal 42, 329-339 (2007)
Kaye N. B. & Hunt G. R. "Overturning in a Filling Box" Journal of Fluid Mechanics 576, 297-323 (2007)
Kaye N. B. & Hunt G. R. "Heat source modelling and natural ventilation efficiency" Building & Environment 42 (4) 1624-1631 (2007)
Kaye N. B. & Hunt G. R. "Weak fountains" Journal of Fluid Mechanics 558, 319-328 (2006)
Hunt G. R. & Kaye N. B. "Pollutant flushing with natural displacement ventilation" Building & Environment 41 (9), 1190-1197 (2006)
Linden P. F. & Kaye N. B. "Interacting turbulent plumes in a ventilated box" International Journal of Ventilation 4 (4), 301-310 (2006)
Kaye N. B. & Linden P. F. "Colliding turbulent plumes" Journal of Fluid Mechanics 550, 85-109 (2006)
Hunt G. R. & Kaye N. B. "Lazy plumes" Journal of Fluid Mechanics 533, 329-338 (2005)
Kaye N. B. & Hunt G. R. "Time-dependent flows in an emptying filling box" Journal of Fluid Mechanics 520, 135-156 (2004)
Kaye N. B. & Linden P. F. "Coalescing axisymmetric turbulent plumes" Journal of Fluid Mechanics 502, 41-63 (2004)
Hunt G. R. & Kaye N. G. "Virtual origin correction for lazy turbulent plumes" Journal of Fluid Mechanics 435, 377-396 (2001)
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