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Maarten van Reeuwijk is a Professor in Urban Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. He leads an active research group and is the Director of Research, teaching at the postgraduate level. His research interests encompass transport processes in fluids, including wall-bounded turbulence and buoyancy effects. Key application areas include urban heat islands, dispersion, microclimate, and atmospheric convection. Maarten employs high-fidelity Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) and Urban Energy Balance models to analyze sustainable infrastructure's impact, such as green roofs and green walls. His active research also covers the turbulent entrainment in various contexts like jets, plumes, and oceanic boundary layers. Moreover, he explores the behavior of particles in turbulent flows, focusing on microplastics and cloud droplets. Maarten supervises a diverse group of PhD students and post-docs from backgrounds in Aeronautical, Civil, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.