Turbulence — the complex and chaotic behaviour of air and water in motion — is all around us in our atmosphere, oceans, rivers, and engineered systems. It has a profound impact on these environments and as a result has grabbed the attention of scientists for over a century.

This site overviews our research which seeks to better understand turbulence and its effects on our natural world. We are led by Dr. Michael Heisel, a lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney. Our work uses a range of methods, including wind tunnel experiments and large-eddy simulations. The pages herein detail our team, examples of our ongoing and past research, links to our scholarly articles, our research facilities, available data and code, and opportunities to join the team as a PhD student.

​We encourage you to use your curiosity and wonderment to explore our turbulent environment, both within this site and in the real world!

It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us, imagination is worth far more.​​

— Édouard Manet (perhaps referring to fluid mechanists?)