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Fredrik Lundell

PhD, Docent
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E-mail: fredrik@mech.kth.se
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Education

PhD in Fluid Mechanics 2003 at KTH
Licentitate in Fluid Mechanics 2000 at KTH
Master of Science in Engineering Physics 1998 at KTH

Professional history

PhD student (Excellenstjänst) at KTH Mechanics 1998-2003.
Postdoc at Commisariat Energie Atomique (CEA), Grenoble 2003-2004.
Researcher at KTH Mechanics, 2004-2005.
Research associate at KTH Mechanics, 2006-2009.
Associate professor at KTH Mechanics 2010-

Research and Professional Activities

Research on flow of fibre suspensions aiming at paper technology.

Teaching activity

Leader for the following list of courses.
For the complete list of courses at mechanics, see the course page

CourseProg. TitleStudiehandbok
SG1130  Mechanics I [swe] [eng]

Publications

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Year Title
2013 Nonlinear disturbance growth during sedimentation in dilute fibre suspensions
Journal of Fluid Mechancis 719 268-294
2012 Analysis of time-resolved PIV measurements of a confined turbulent jet using POD and Koopman modes
Experiments in fluids  
2012 Non-spherical Bodies With Particle and Fluid Inertia: Rotating or Surfing?
7th International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, Japan (2012)  
2012 Rotation of ellipsoids in canonical flows: Effects of particle and fluid inertia
23rd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Beijing, China (2012)  
2012 Rotation of a spheroidal particle in Couette flow: effects of fluid and particle inertia
65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 18–20, 2012, San Diego, USA  
2011 Fluid mechanics of papermaking
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 43 195-217
2011 Effect of surface tension on global modes of confined wake flows
Physics of Fluids 23 014108
2011 Stabilizing effect of surrounding gas flow on a plane liquid sheet
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 672 5-32
2011 Global linear and nonlinear stability of viscous confined plane wakes with co-flow
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 675 397-434
2011 The local and global stability of confined planar wakes at intermediate Reynolds number
Journal of Fluid Mechanics  
2011 Evaluation of steerable filter for detection of fibers in flowing suspensions
Exp. in Fluids 51 987-996
2010 Spin Coating of Blu-Ray disks: modeling, experiments, limitations, and manipulation
Journal of Coatings Technology and Research 7 315-323
2010 Hydrodynamic interaction among multiple spherical particles
7th Int. Conf. on Multiphase Flow, May 30 - June 4, 2010, Tampa, Florida, USA  
2010 Fibre Streaks in Wall Bounded Turbulent Flow
7th Int. Conf. on Multiphase Flow, May 30 - June 4, 2010, Tampa, Florida, USA  
2010 Streak Formation and Fibre Orientation in Near Wall Turbulent Fibre Suspension Flow
ERCOFTAC bulletin 84 
2010 Feedback Control of Boundary Layer Bypass Transition: Comparison of a numerical study with experiments
AIAA Journal 48 (8) 1848-1851
2009 Feedback control of boundary layer bypass transition: experimental and numerical progress
47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL  
2009 Exploring the secrets of forming: particle image velocimetry in a scaled and index-of-refraction matched fibre suspension
Papermaking Research Symposium, June 2009, Kuopio, Finland  
2009 Self-organization of fibers in a suspension between two counter-rotating discs
In proceedings of: "FEDSM2009, ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting", August 2009, Vail, CO  
2009 Effect of confinement on wake instability: comparison of local, global linear and nonlinear methods
6th International Conference on Flow Dynamics, November 2009, Sendai, Japan  
2009 Experimental and numerical flow control of bypass transition
6th International Conference on Flow Dynamics, November 2009, Sendai, Japan  
2009 Global stability of a plane liquid jet surrounded by gas
Proc. Seventh IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009  
2009 Measurement-integrated simulations applied to the case f a planar co-flowing jet: results and experimental validation
4th Symposium on Integrating CFD and Experiments in Aerodynamics, September 2009, Rhode-Saint-Genes, Belgium  
2009 Experimental evaluation of a CFD-based flow observer applied to the case of a turbulent jet in a co-flowing stream
  
2008 Fibre orientation in the boundary layers of a planar converging channel
PaperCon 2008 - TAPPI/PIMA Joint Conference, Dallas, TX  
2008 Experimental study on the forming process: fluid velocity and fluid-fiber interaction measurements
PaperCon 2008 - TAPPI/PIMA Joint Conference, Dallas, TX  
2008 Estimation of the potential of a flow-control experiment by system identification
Proc. XXII ICTAM, 25--29 August 2008, Adelaide, Australia  
2008 Flow velocity measurements in a fiber suspension flow: the formation of a fiber network
21st Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Trondheim, Norway, 16-17 October  
2008 Global linear stability of a plane liquid jet
5th International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, Japan  
2007 Reactive control of free-stream turbulence induced transition: an experimental demonstration
J. Fluid Mech. 585 41-71
2007 A study on formation of fibre networks with PIV at high particle concentrations
International conference on multiphase flow, Leipzig, Germany  
2006 The wall effect on the orientation of fibres in a shear flow
Annual transactions of the nordic rheology society 14 83-90
2006 Fibre orientation control related to papermaking
ASME Joint U.S. - European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Miami, FL  
2006 Fibre orientation control related to papermaking
J. Fluids Eng.  
2005 Effect of fibres on laminar-turbulent transition and turbulent scales
Advances in Papermaking  
2004 Streak oscillation of finite length: disturbance evolution and growth
Phys. Fluids 16 3227-3230
2004 Streamwise scaling of streaks in boundary layers subjected to free-stream turbulence
Phys. Fluids 16 1814-1817
2004 Pulse-width modulated blowing/suction as a flow control actuator
Exp. in Fluids 35 502-504
2004 Plenum or chamber distribution: a comparative study of micro and minichannel heat exchangers
Proc of the 4th European Thermal Sciences Conference, Birmingham, UK  
2004 Constructal networks for efficient cooling/heating
2nd International Conference on Micrchannels and Minichannels, Rochester NY  695-700
2004 Visualization of low heat and mass flux boiling in a small metal pipe using neutron radiography
2nd International Conference on Micrchannels and Minichannels, Rochester NY  499-505
2003 Experiments on control of streamwise streaks
European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids 22 279-290
2003 Velocity statistics and flow structures observed in bypass transition using stereo PTV
Exp. in Fluids 34 242-252
2003 Generation mechanism of streaky structure in natural transition
FED'03 2003 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (FEDSM 2003-45231), Honolulu, HI  
2001 Direct observation of the lift-up effect in boundary layer transition using hydrogen-bubble method
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 2  
2001 Localized secondary instabilities of velocity streaks in plane channel flow
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 2  
2000 Feed-forward control of streak instabilities in plane Poiseuille flow by localized suction
Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Proc. IUTAM Symp., Sedona, Sept. 13-17. 1999. Eds Fasel H.F. & Saric W.S., Springer  229-234

Internal reports

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Year Title Type
2003 Experimental studies of bypass transition and its control Doctoral thesis
2000 Streak breakdown and transition control in wall-bounded flows Licentiate thesis
1998 A study of the velocity and temperature boundary layers over a heated rotating disk MSc thesis (Examensarbete)

Projects

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Period Title Area
2004-2008 Ecotarget Fluid mechanics
1992- Experiments on stability, transition, separation and turbulence in boundary layer flows. Fluid mechanics
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