Journal Articles

Rowland S, Aghakhani A, Whalley RD, Ferreira AM, Kotov N, Gentile P. Layer-by-layer nanoparticle assembly for biomedicine: mechanisms, technologies, and advancement via acoustofluidics. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2024, 7(14), 15874-15902. 

Shen X, Deng X, Mecrow B, Wrobel R, Whalley RD. Enhancing heat transfer efficiency in permanent magnet machines through innovative thermal design of stator windings. Applied Sciences. 2024, 14(6), 1-16. 

​O'Connor J, Diessner M, Wilson K, Whalley RD, Wynn A, Laizet S. Optimisation and analysis of streamwise-varying wall-normal blowing in a turbulent boundary layer. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion. 2023, 1-29.

Diessner M,  O'Connor J, Wynn A, Laizet S, Guan Y, Wilson K, Whalley RD. Investigating Bayesian optimization for expensive-to-evaluate black box functions: Application in fluid dynamics. Front. Appl. Math. Stat. 2022, 8, 1076296.

Morabit Y, Hasan MI, Whalley RD, Robert E, Modic M, Walsh JL. A review of the gas and liquid phase interactions in low-temperature plasma jets used for biomedical applications. European Physical Journal D 2021, 75(1).

Tzivelekis C, Sgardelis P, Waldron K, Whalley R, Huo D, Dalgarno K. Fabrication routes via projection stereolithography for 3D-printing of microfluidic geometries for nucleic acid amplification. PLoS ONE 2020, 15(10), e0240237.

Zhang H, Whalley RD, Ferreira AM, Dalgarno K. High throughput physiological micro-models for in vitro pre-clinical drug testing: a review of engineering systems approaches. Progress in Biomedical Engineering 2020, 2(2), 022001.

Whalley RD, Dennis DJC, Graham MD, Poole RJ. An experimental investigation into spatiotemporal intermittencies in turbulent channel flow close to transition. Experiments in Fluids 2019, 60, 102.

Agrawal R, Whalley RD, Ng HC-H, Dennis DJC, Poole RJ. Minimizing recalibration using a non-linear regression technique for thermal anemometry. Experiments in Fluids 2019, 60(7), 116.

Mahfoze OA, Moody A, Wynn A, Whalley RD, Laizet S. Reducing the skin-friction drag of a turbulent boundary-layer flow with low-amplitude wall-normal blowing within a Bayesian optimization framework. Physical Review Fluids 2019, 4(9), 094601.

Morabit Y, Whalley RD, Robert E, Hasan MI, Walsh JL. Turbulence and entrainment in an atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier plasma jet. Plasma Processes and Polymers 2019, 17(6), 1900217.

Whalley RD, Park JS, Kushwaha A, Dennis D, Graham MD, Poole R. Low-drag events in transitional wall-bounded turbulence. Physical Review Fluids 2017, 2, 034602.

Ni Y, Lynch MJ, Modic M, Whalley R, Walsh J. A solar powered handheld plasma source for microbial decontamination applications. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2016, 49(35), 355203.

Abed WM, Whalley RD, Dennis JC, Poole RJ. Experimental investigation of the impact of elastic turbulence on heat transfer in a serpentine channel. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 2016, 231, 68-78.

Whalley RD, Walsh JL. Turbulent jet flow generated downstream of a low temperature dielectric barrier atmospheric pressure plasma device. Scientific Reports 2016, 6, 31756

Whalley RD, Abed WM, Dennis DJC, Poole RJ. Enhancing heat transfer at the micro-scale using elastic turbulence. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters 2015, 5(3), 103-106.

Abed WM, Whalley RD, Dennis JCD, Poole RJ. Numerical and experimental investigation of heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics in a micro-scale serpentine channel. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 2015, 88, 790-802.

Choi KS, Jukes TN, Whalley RD, Feng LH, Wang JJ, Matsunuma T, Segawa T. Plasma virtual actuators for flow control. Journal of Flow Control, Measurement & Visualisation 2015, 3(1), 22-34.

Whalley RD, Choi KS. Turbulent boundary-layer control with plasma spanwise travelling waves. Experiments in Fluids 2014, 55(1796).

Wang JJ, Choi KS, Feng LH, Jukes TN, Whalley RD. Recent developments in DBD plasma flow control. Progress in Aerospace Sciences 2013, 62, 52-78.

Moreau E, Debien A, Bénard N, Jukes T, Whalley R, Choi KS, Berendt A, Podlinkski J, Mizeraczyk J. Surface dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators. ERCOFTAC Bulletin 2013, 94, 5-10.

Whalley RD, Debien A, Podlinski J, Jukes TN, Choi KS, Benard N, Moreau E, Berendt A, Mizeraczyk J. Trailing-edge separation control of a NACA 0015 airfoil using dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma actuators. ERCOFTAC Bulletin 2013, 94, 35-40.

Whalley RD, Choi KS. The starting vortex in quiescent air induced by dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2012, 703, 192-203.

Choi KS, Jukes T, Whalley R. Turbulent boundary-layer control with plasma actuators. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A 2011, 369(1940), 1443-1458.

Whalley R, Choi KS. Starting, traveling and colliding vortices: dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma in quiescent air. Physics of Fluids 2010, 22(9), 091105.
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Patents

Wall-Shear Stress Sensor (WO2022153028A1) 
Wall-Shear Stress Sensor and System (WO2022153027A1) 

Conferences & Talks

Liu T, Wilkes M, Swailes DC, Whalley RD (2023). Measurements of coherent structures during low-drag hibernation events in turbulent boundary layer flows. In: 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington DC, USA.

Chen X, Diessner M, O'Connor J, Wilkes M, Wilson K, Wynn A, Laizet S, Whalley RD (2023). Optimising Skin-Friction Drag Reduction via Low-Amplitude Wall-Normal Blowing Techniques Using a Bayesian Optimisation Framework. In: 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington DC, USA.

Barrow J, Wilkes M, Liu T, Gallacher B, Whalley RD (2023). On the development and implementation of MEMS sensors for instantaneous wall-shear stress measurements in wind tunnel applications. In: 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington DC, USA

O'Connor J, Diessner M, Wilson K, Whalley RD, Wynn A, Laizet S (2023). Bayesian Optimisation of Wall-Normal Blowing Control for Skin-Friction Drag Reduction in a Turbulent Boundary Layer. In: 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington DC, USA.

Diessner M, O'Connor J, Wynn A, Laizet S, Wilson K, Whalley RD. (2023). Leveraging Bayesian Optimisation for Expensive Experiments and Simulations in Fluid Dynamics with Uncontrollable Dynamic Variables. In: 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington DC, USA.

Vedeniapina, D, Veerasamy D, Wilkes M, Steel D, Whalley RD (2023). In-vitro eye surgery studied with Particle Image Velocimetry, Oral contributed speaker 2. In: UK Fluids Conference 2023, Glasgow, UK.

Liu T, Wilkes M, Swailes DC, Whalley RD (2023). Detection and characterisation of hibernating turbulence in boundary-layer flows. In: UK Fluids Conference 2023, Glasgow, UK.
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Chen X, Diessner M, Wilkes M, Wilson K, Whalley RD (2023). Using an intelligent machine learning framework to optimise for skin-friction drag reduction using low-amplitude wall-normal blowing techniques. In: UK Fluids Conference 2023, Glasgow, UK.

Diessner M, Chen X, Wilson K, Whalley RD. (2023). A Machine Learning Framework for the Optimisation of Experiments and Simulations in Fluid Dynamics. In: UK Fluids Conference 2023, Glasgow, UK.

Barrow J, Liu T, Wilkes M, Gallacher B, Whalley RD (2023). On the development and characterisation of optical Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) sensors for measurements of instantaneous wall-shear stress in wall-turbulent air flows. In: UK Fluids Conference 2023, Glasgow, UK.

Whalley RD. (2023). On the application of MEMS sensors for microsatellite applications. NATO 52nd AVT Panel Business meeting, Bastad, Sweden (invited). 

Whalley RD. (2023). NUBO: An intelligent machine learning framework for efficient optimisation. 52nd AVT Panel Business meeting, Bastad, Sweden (invited). 

Vedeniapina D, Veerasamy D, Wilkes M, Steel D, Whalley RD (2023). Field of fluidic effect and flow variation during vitrectomy. DORC Ltd ad-board, Amsterdam, Netherlands (invited).

Barrow J, Liu T, Wilkes M, Gallacher B, Whalley RD (2023). On the development of an optical MEMS sensor for instantaneous wall-shear stress measurements in wall-bounded turbulent flows. In: European Turbulence Conference 18, Valencia, Spain.

Whalley RD. (2022). MEMS wall-shear stress sensors. 51st AVT Panel Business meeting, AVT-344, London, UK (invited). 

Veerasamy D, Vedeniapina D, Wilkes M, Steel D, Whalley RD (2022). OCULUS: Mid-term review. DORC Ltd HQ, Rotterdam, Netherlands (invited).

O'Connor J, Mahfoze O, Wynn A, Whalley RD, Laizet S. (2022). A Bayesian optimisation framework for drag reduction and net energy saving in a turbulent boundary layer using wall-normal blowing. In: European Conference for Aerospace Sciences, Lille, France. 

O'Connor J, Laizet S, Wynn A, Diessner M, Guan Y, Wilson K, Whalley RD. (2022). Flow physics of a turbulent boundary layer actuated via wall-normal blowing in different configurations. In: European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, Paris, France. 

Diessner M, Guan Y, O'Connor J, Laizet S, Wynn A, Wilson K, Whalley RD. (2022). On the development of a Bayesian optimisation framework for turbulent drag reduction. In: European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, Paris, France. 

Liu T, Moody A, Wilkes M, Swailes DC, Whalley RD. (2022). On the detection and characterisation of hibernating turbulence in boundary-layer flows. In: European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, Paris, France. 

Ebrahimzade N, Portoles J, Wilkes M Cumpson P, Whalley RD. (2022). Optical MEMS sensors for instantaneous wall-shear stress measurements in turbulent boundary-layer flows. In: 12th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Osaka, Japan. 

Mahfoze OA, Wynn A, Whalley RD, Laizet S. (2021). A Bayesian optimisation framework for drag reduction and net-energy saving in a turbulent boundary layer using wall blowing. In: 14th 3AF Integrated Air and Defence Conference, Nice, France.

Ebrahimzade N, Portoles J, Reeve J, Cumpson P, Whalley RD. (2021). Optical MEMS sensors for wall-shear stress measurements on turbulent boundary-layer flows. In: UK Fluids Network Conference, University of Southampton, UK. 

Whalley RD. (2020). Optical MEMS wall-shear stress sensors. NATO 51st AVT Panel Business meeting, London, UK (invited). 

Whalley RD. (2020). Hibernating turbulence in boundary-layer flows. In: US Air Force Annual Program Review, Washington DC, USA (invited). 

Whalley RD. (2020). Detecting low-drag events in turbulent boundary-layer flows. UK Fluids SIG on non-equilibrium turbulence, Imperial College London (invited). 

Whalley RD. (2020). Overview: Hibernating turbulence, MEMS wall-shear stress sensors and turbulent skin-friction drag reduction. UK Fluids SIG on turbulent skin-friction drag reduction, City University of London, UK (invited). 

Whalley RD. (2019). Plasma actuators for internal flows. NATO 44th AVT Panel Business meeting, Trondheim, Norway (invited). 

Mahfoze OA, Moody A, Wynn A, Whalley RD, Laizet S. (2020). Bayesian optimisation of intermittent wall blowing in a turbulent boundary layer for net power saving. In: UK Fluids Network SIG on turbulent skin-friction drag reduction, City University of London, UK.

Mahfoze OA, Moody A, Wynn A, Whalley RD, Laizet S. (2019). Bayesian optimisation of intermittent wall blowing in a turbulent boundary layer for net power saving. In: 11th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, University of Southampton, UK.

Mahfoze OA, Moody A, Wynn A, Whalley, RD, Laizet S. (2019). Bayesian optimisation of wall blowing to control energy and skin friction in a turbulent boundary layer. In: European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, Bad Herrenalb, Germany. 

Mahfoze OA, Moody A, Wynn A, Whalley RD, Laizet S. (2019). Bayesian optimisation of intermittent wall blowing in a turbulent boundary layer for net power saving. In: UK Fluids Network SIG on turbulent skin-friction drag reduction, Cambridge University, UK.

Agrawal R, Ng HCH, Whalley RD, Dennis DJC, Poole RJ. (2019). In search of low drag events in Newtonian turbulent channel flow at low Reynolds number. In: 11th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, University of Southampton, UK.

Shen X, Mecrow B, Deng X, Donaghy-Spargo C, Whalley RD, Chakraborty N. (2019). The optimisation of direct air cooling of high-power permanent magnet machines. In: 11th Annual Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition, Washington DC, USA.

Tzivelekis B, Huo D, Whalley RD, Dalgarno KW. (2019). Fabrication via DLP-SLA and characterization of shuttle flow 2-step PCR microfluidic cartridges. In: Lab-on-a-chip & Microfluidics, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Whalley RD. (2018). Spatiotemporal intermittencies in turbulent channel flow close to transition. UK Fluids Network SIG on non-equilibrium turbulence, Imperial College London, UK (invited). 

Whalley RD. (2018). Hibernating turbulence in boundary-layer flows. US Air Force Annual Program Review, Washington DC, USA (invited).

Morabit Y, Walsh JL, Hasan MI, Whalley RD. (2018). Quantitative insights in to the fluid interactions downstream of an atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge plasma jet. In: 45th EPC Conference on Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic.

Agrawal R, Ng H, Whalley RD, Dennis DJC, Poole RJ. (2018). In search of low drag events in Newtonian turbulent channel flow at low Reynolds number. In: UK Fluids Conference, University of Leeds, UK.

Yuan N, Lynch MJ, Modic M, Whalley R, Bayliss D, Walsh JL. (2017). Scale up of atmospheric pressure plasma systems for food treatment. In: European meeting of international association of food protection, Brussels, Belgium.

Whalley RD. (2016). Plasma actuators for internal flows. NATO 37th AVT Panel Business meeting, Tallinn, Estonia (invited). 

Yuan N, Lynch MJ, Modic M, Whalley R, Bayliss D, Walsh JL. (2016). Scale up of atmospheric pressure plasma systems for food treatment. In: CEI Workshop on Applications of Advanced Plasma Technologies in Central Europe Agriculture, Ljublana, Slovenia.

Yuan N, Lynch MJ, Modic M, Whalley R, Walsh JL. (2016). Flow effects in an atmospheric pressure plasma jet. In: 5th International Conference on Advanced Plasma Technologies, Rogla, Slovenia.

Yuan N, Lynch MJ, Modic M, Whalley R, Bayliss DL, Walsh JL. (2015). Development and optimisation of air plasma sources for microbiological decontamination. In: COST Action MP1101: Biomedical Applications of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Technology Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey.

Yuan N, Lynch MJ, Modic M, Whalley R, Bayliss D, Walsh JL. (2015). Optimisation of air plasma discharges for microbiological decontamination. In: 75th International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique, and Applications on Sheath Phenomena in Plasma Processing of Advanced Materials, Slovenia.

Whalley RD. (2015). Plasma actuators for skin-friction drag reduction. NATO 36th AVT Panel Business meeting, Prague, Czech Republic (invited). 

Whalley RD, Park JS, Kushwaha A, Dennis DJC, Graham MD, Poole RJ. (2014). On the connection between maximum drag reduction and Newtonian fluid flow. In: 67th Annual meeting of the APS division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, USA.

Choi KS, Jukes TN, Whalley RD, Feng LH, Wang JJ. (2014). Virtual devices for flow control using DBD plasma. In: 4th International conference on experimental fluid mechanics, Beijing, China.

Whalley RD, Dennis DJC, Graham MD, Poole RJ. (2014).  Hibernating turbulence in Newtonian fluids and dilute polymer solutions. In: 9th Annual European Rheology Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Moreau E, Debien A, Bénard N, Jukes T, Whalley R, Choi KS, Berendt A, Podlińkski J, Mizeraczyk J. (2012). Surface dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators. In: Proc. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, Toulouse, France.

Moreau E, Debien A, Bénard N, Jukes T, Whalley R, Choi KS, Berendt A, Podlińkski J, Mizeraczyk J. (2012). Surface dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators. In: Proc. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, Toulouse, France.

Whalley RD, Choi KS. (2011). Turbulent Boundary-Layer Control with Spanwise Travelling Waves. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 318, 022039.

Whalley R, Choi KS. (2010). Changes in Turbulent Boundary Layer Structure by Spanwise Travelling Waves Created by DBD Plasma Actuators. In: Proc. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Whalley R, Choi KS. (2010). Turbulent Boundary Layer Control by DBD Plasma: A Spanwise Travelling Wave. In: Proc. 5th AIAA Flow Control Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

Whalley R, Choi KS. (2010). Turbulent Boundary Layer Control by Spanwise Travelling Waves Created by DBD Plasma. In: Proc. 9th International Workshop on Magneto-Plasma Aerodynamics, Moscow, Russia.

Whalley R, Jukes TN, Choi KS. (2010). On the Development of a Starting Vortex by Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma. In: Proc. 5th International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, Japan.

Whalley R, Jukes TN, Choi KS. (2009). On the Development of a Starting Vortex in Still Air at the Initiation of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma.  In: Proc. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting, Ostritz, Germany.

Whalley R, Choi KS, Chakravarthi K. (2006). A Low-Voltage Micropump based on Transverse Electro-osmosis. In: Proc. Micro and Nano-scale Flows: Advancing Science and Design, Glasgow, UK.

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Dr Richard Whalley
School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK