Prof. Rob Poole is currently Head of Department for the Centre for Engineering Dynamics. Invited plenary talk (Keynote Speech, Workshop on “Flow Instabilities & Turbulence in Viscoelastic Fluids” 2010) EPSRC Peer Review College Member (EPSRC 2005) Osborne Reynolds Prize Finalist Medal (ERCOFTAC 2003)

Purely Elastic Flow Asymmetries (Journal article - 2007) Serpentine channels: micro-rheometers for fluid relaxation times (Journal article - 2014) Geometric scaling of a purely elastic flow instability in serpentine channels (Journal article - 2012) Near-wake characteristics of a model horizontal axis tidal stream turbine (Journal article - 2014) Closure technique after carotid endarterectomy influences local hemodynamics. (Journal article - 2014) Elastic instabilities in parallel shear flows of a viscoelastic shear-thinning liquid Experimental investigation of the impact of elastic turbulence on heat transfer in a serpentine channel Experiments on low-Reynolds-number turbulent flow through a square duct Influence of channel aspect ratio on the onset of purely-elastic flow instabilities in three-dimensional planar cross-slots Lid-driven cavity flow of viscoelastic liquids Numerical investigation of steady-state laminar natural convection of power-law fluids in square cross-sectioned cylindrical annular cavity with differentially-heated vertical walls. Sliding viscoelastic drops on slippery surfaces The influence of blade pitch angle on the performance of a model horizontal axis tidal stream turbine operating under wave-current interaction The stabilizing effect of shear thinning on the onset of purely elastic instabilities in serpentine microflows Tricritical spiral vortex instability in cross-slot flow