Current and recent students research projects
Aerospace Engineering
List of available research topics
Listed by Supervisor
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Feasability of Autostereoscopic Displays for Flight Simulation
- Acoustic Condition Monitoring in Industrial Environments
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Dr Konstantinos Kontis and Prof Peter Stansby
- The Effect of Turbulence on Wind Turbine - PhD Student - Mahyar Mahmoodilari
Professor Dominique Laurence and Dr R Prosser
- C-Class Catamaran Wing Performance Optimisation
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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