Research Interests

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Bluff Body flows
• Stratified flows
• Coastal oceanographic modelling and water waves

Publications

• Lo SH, Voke PR , Rockliff NJ . Eddy Structures in a Simulated Low Reynolds Number Turbulent Boundary Layer. Flow Turbulence and Combustion, 2000, 64, pp1-28.
• Lo SH , Voke PR , Rockliff NJ . Three-Dimensional Vortices of a Spatially Developing Plane Jet. Intern. Journal Fluid Dynamics, 2000, Volume 4, article 1
• Rockliff NJ , Steggel NEJ . The Effect of After-Body Geometry on the Vortex-Shedding Characteristics of Bluff Bodies. In: Thompson MC, Hourigan K ed. Thirteenth Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference. Clayton, Australia: Monash University, 1998, pp881-884.
• N Rockliff "To be - or not to be - an engineer?" Careers Adviser (Summer issue), 1998.
• N. Steggel & N.J. Rockliff "Simulation of the effects of body shape on lock-in characteristics in pulsating flows by the discrete vortex method". J. Wind Eng. & Industr. Aero., 69-71, pp 317-329 (1997).
• N Rockliff "Engineering IS for girls" Which Course, 27(1), p49 (1997).
• N Rockliff "Engineering Firm Foundations" School Leaver 27(5), pp 14 -15 (1997).
• N Steggel, NJ Rockliff & IP Castro "Numerical simulation of in-line oscillatory flow past square cylinders by the Discrete Vortex Method". Proceedings of Applied Mechanics Division Symposium on Fluid Structure Interactions, 1995 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, San Francisco (1995).
• IP Castro & NJ Rockliff (eds.) "Stably Stratified flows: Flow and Dispersion over Topography", IMA Conference Series 52, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1994).
• MF Paisley, IP Castro & NJ Rockliff "Steady and unsteady computations of strongly stratified flows over a vertical barrier" , pp 39-60 in "Stably Stratified flows: Flow and Dispersion over Topography", IMA Conference Series 52, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1994).

Professional Activities

• President, Women's Engineering Society
• Trustee, Verena Holmes Lecture Fund
• Trustee, Engineering Development Trust
• Schools Liaison Officer, School of Engineering

Current Research Programmes

Vortex methods for bluff body flows