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Aerospace Engineering

List of available research topics

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Dr Mark Cotton

  • A Turbulence Modelling Study of Fully-Pulsed Round Jets
  • Boron Dilution Transients in DWR's
  • Eddy-Viscosity and Stress-Transport Modelling of Synthetic Jets With and Without Cross-Flow
  • Low-Reynolds-Number and Strain Parameter Turbulence Models Applied to Open Channel Flow Including Flow over Porous Beds

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Dr Tim Craft

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling of Three Dimensional Jet Implement Cooling on Concave Surfaces
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling of Three-Dimensional Jet Impingement cooling on Concave Surfaces Mechanical Engineering
  • Computation of Unsteady & Non-equilibrium Flows Using RST Models

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Dr William Crowther

  • A Design Methodology for Circulation Control Manoeuvre Effectors
  • The Application of Circulation Control for Three Axis Control of a Tailless Aircraft
  • Leading-edge Flow Separation Control for High-lift
  • Exploitation of Flow Control
  • On the Modelling of Anisotropic Piezoelectric Diaphragms for the Development of High Subsonic Synthetic Jet Actuators
  • A Novel Six Degree of Freedom Dynamic Wind Tunnel test Facility
  • Non-Intrusive Tomography of Boundary Layer Flows on Aircraft
  • The Development of Coflow Fluidic Thrust Vectoring Systems
  • Fluidic Thrust vectoring of High Aspect Ratio Underexpanded Jets
  • Fluidic Thrust Vectoring of High Aspect Ratio Jets
  • The Use of Synthetic Jet Actuators to Enhance Deflected Surface Controls
  • An Evaluation of compliant aerodynamics design for flow control spoiler systems

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Dr Dominic Diston

  • Feasability of Autostereoscopic Displays for Flight Simulation

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Dr Iain Dupere

  • Acoustic Condition Monitoring in Industrial Environments

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Dr Antonio Filippone

  • Multidisciplinary Investigations of Aerodynamic Noise from High-Lift Leading-Edge Device
  • Effect of Passive Porosity Strength and Streamwise Slots on the Drag of a Projectile at Transonic/Supersonic Speeds
  • The Use of Sliding/Rotating Meshes for Unsteady Aerodynamics
  • Unsteady Computational Aerodynamics of Vehicle Overtaking
  • Numerical Simulation of A Tail Rotor Blade in Forward Flight

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Professor Hector Iacovides

  • The Use of Unsteady RANS in the Computations of 3-Dimensional Flows in Rotating Cavities
  • Modellling the Effect of Pulsation on Flow & Heat Transfer in Turbulent Separated & Reattaching Flows
  • Leakage & Blockage Detection in Pipelines Using an Acoustic Inspection Tool
  • Experimental Investigation of Buoyant Flow

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Dr Artur Jaworski

  • The Development of Capacitance Measurement Techniques and Data Processing Methods for the Characterisation of Two-Phase Flow Phenomena in Horizontal and Inclined Pipelines
  • Numerical Modelling of Thermal Fluid Processes in Thermoacoustic Devices
  • Thermoacoustic Technologies
  • Development of Instrumentation for Phase Detection in Oilfield Conditions: Primary Separators and Related Applications

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Dr Konstantinos Kontis

  • Experimental Studies on Flow Control Systems for Compressible Fluid Dynamics Phenomena and Interactions
  • Development and Application of Co-Flow Active Technologies to Aerodynamic Problems and Interactions
  • Experimental Hypersonic Flows and Interactions
  • Experimental Studies on Compressible Flow Structures and Interactions
  • Development of SDBD and MEE-SDBD Plasma Actuators and Study their Effects as a Flow Control Technique - PhD Student - Rasool Erfani
  • Experimental Studies on Compressible Vortical Flows, Phenomena & Interactions
  • Flow Control Studies at Subsonic, Transonic and Supersonic Speeds
  • Experimental Studies on compressible Vortex Rings and their Interactions with Generic Bodies
  • Flow Fundamentals & Applications of Passive & Active Flow Control Concepts
  • Active Flow Control Studies at Subsonic Speeds
  • Computational Studies on Active Flow Control Technology for Aerodynamic Application
  • Flow control Effectiveness of Pneumatic Actuators with Generic Bodies at Subsonic Speeds

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Dr Konstantinos Kontis and Prof Peter Stansby


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Professor Dominique Laurence and Dr R Prosser

  • C-Class Catamaran Wing Performance Optimisation

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Professor Dominique Laurence

  • Truly Incompressible Approach for Computing Incompressible Flow in SPH And Comparisons With The Traditional Weakly Compressible Approach
  • An Industrial Approach to Near-Wall Turbulence Modelling For Unstructured Finite Volume Methods
  • Stochastic Lagrangian Modelling For Large Eddy Simulation of Dispersed Turbulent Two-Phase Flows
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Large Eddy Simulation with the Unstructured Collocated Arrangement
  • Turbulence Modelling Of Unsteady Mean Flows

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Dr Olutunde Oyadiji

  • Predicting the Limit Cycle Behaviour of Aeroelastic Systems with Discrete Non-Linearities
  • Anti-Ballistic Performance of Foam & Composite Structure
  • Response Prediction & Detection in Non-Linear Clamped Panels
  • Vibration of Swept Plates and Box Sections
  • Acoustic Fatigue
  • Application of Control Methods and Smart Materials to Vibration Control
  • Dynamic Analysis of Rotating Beams & Plates
  • Computation of SIF Values for Cracked Thin Plate Using Fracial Finite Element
  • Structural Damage Detection Using Signal Processing Techniques

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Dr Robert Prosser

  • Computational Aspects of Reacting Flows
  • Synthetic Inflow Boundary Conditions for the Numerical Simulation of Turbulence
  • Large-Eddy Simulation of the Flow around a Controlled-Diffusion Airfoil

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Dr Alistair Revell

  • Designing Computational Fluid Dynamics Codes for Next Generation High Performance Computing
  • 'Novel Software Architecture for Modelling and Simulation in HPC
  • Turbulence Modelling and Simulation for Drag and Noise Reduction in Aerospace Engineering

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Professor Ali Turan

  • Aeroacoustics of Rotor Stator Interactions and Practical Suggestions for Noise Abatement
  • CFD Study on Soot and Nox Emissions Reduction in Diesel Engines
  • Large-Eddy Simulation of Wall-Bounded Flows Subjected To Curvature and Rotation

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Dr Shan Zhong

  • Numerical Simulations of Skewed Synthetic Jets
  • Flow Separation Control using an Array of Synthetic Jets
  • An experimental study of the effect of adverse Pressure Gradient on the behaviour Turbulent Spot
  • The Effect of Orifice Orientation on the behaviour of Synthetic Jets
  • Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Impinging Circular Synthetic Jets
  • Experimental Investigation of the Low-Speed Stall Flutter of an Airfoil
  • Separation Control on High Lift Systems Using Vane Vortex Generators
  • Numerical Simulation and Modelling of Synthetic Jets for Flow Control
  • Understanding the Behaviour of Synthetic Jets in a Boundary Layer for Flow Separation Control
  • An experimental study of the effect of favourable Pressure Gradient on the behaviour of Turbulent Spots

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