Dr Sergei Lukaschuk

Reader / Director of Fluid Dynamics Lab

s.lukaschuk@hull.ac.uk

01482 466073

Dr Sergei Lukaschuk is an engineer-physicist specialising in experimental fluid dynamics with expertise in surface waves, hydrodynamic turbulence and ultrasound.

He started his career at the Russian Academy of Science, before working at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Biosonix Ltd, a high-tech start-up company in Israel.

He joined the University of Hull in 2002. His main academic achievements are associated with experiments on laminar-turbulent transition in Couette-Taylor flow, discovery of floater clustering by standing surface waves, and laboratory studies of energy cascade in wave turbulence.

Research

Research Interests

Experimental fluid dynamics
Wave turbulence
Hydrodynamics turbulence
Physics of ultrasound (including medical ultrasound)
Data and image acquisition and processing

Research groups

UK Fluids Network: a member of two special interest groups in

Surface and internal waves
Wave turbulence

Collaboration with

Department of Complex Systems of Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Science

Publications

Mukherjee A, Lukaschuk S, Burnishev Y, Falkovich G and Steinberg V, 'Precise measurements of torque in von Karman swirling flow driven by a bladed disk', Journal of Turbulence, vol 19, pp 621-646 (2018)

Lukaschuk S, Nazarenko S, McLelland S and Denissenko P, 'Gravity Wave Turbulence in Wave Tanks: Space and Time Statistics', Physical Review Letters, 103, 044501 (2009)

Denissenko P, Lukaschuk S and Nazarenko S, 'Gravity wave turbulence in a laboratory flume', Physical Review Letters, 99, 014501 (2007)

Denissenko P, Falkovich G and Lukaschuk S, 'How Waves Affect the Distribution of Particles that Float on a Liquid Surface', Physical Review Letters, 97, 244501 (2006)

Falkovich G, Weinberg A, Denissenko P and Lukaschuk S, 'Surface Tension: Floater clustering in a standing wave', Nature, 435 (7045), 1045 (2005)

Teaching

Modules list

Introduction to Design and Mechanical Engineering Practice
Engineering Global Challenge
Stress analysis and Dynamics of Mechanical Systems
Mathematics and Fluid Mechanics for Mechanical Engineers
Application of Dynamics and Vibrations in Mechanical Systems
Individual Project (Mechanical Engineering

Research PhDs

Dr Sergei Lukaschuk welcomes PhD applications in Experimental Fluid Dynamics.

Completed PhDs

Robert Bedard, Laboratory scale experiments with water surface waves, University of Hull (2012)
Jarrid Ng, A novel method to develop nanoporous polymeric membranes using self-assembled magnetic nanoparticles as templates, University of Hull (2013)