Aerospace Group
This Group undertakes research directly relevant to the aerospace industry and also of a quite fundamental nature.
Manchester has a distinguished history in turbulence modelling (from Osborne Reynolds to Brian Launder) and also in Fluids (e.g. Lamb and Goldstein), reflected in aerodynamics and heat transfer research today coupled with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) allied to interests in Dynamics, Composite Structures and Aeroelasticity.
There is strong industrial linkage with EADS, Airbus and the Group is a preferred academic partner for BAE Systems in experimental aerodynamics and dynamic loads. EU collaboration is particularly strong. There are excellent test facilities for dynamics and aerodynamics with large wind tunnels at the Goldstein Laboratory.
Group members
Group Leader: Prof Konstantinos Kontis
Membership: Dr Yacine Addad, Dr Imran Afgan, Dr John Atkinson, Dr Flavien Billard, Dr Philip Bonello, Mr Dennis Cooper, Dr Mark Cotton, Dr Tim Craft, Dr William Crowther, Dr Dominic Diston, Dr Iain Dupere, Dr Erinc Erdem, Dr Antonio Filippone, Dr Zhiqiang Gu, Dr Peter Hollingsworth, Prof Hector Iacovides, Dr Amir Keshmiri, Prof Brian Launder, Prof Dominique Laurence, Prof Thierry Maitre, Dr Adel Nasser, Dr S Olutunde Oyadiji, Dr Hai M Pham, Dr Alistair Revell, Dr Stefano Rolfo, Dr Katharine Smith, Prof Ali Turan, Dr Juan Uribe, Dr Sergei Utyuzhnikov, Prof Jan Wright, Dr Indika Yahathugoda, Mr Matthew Yates, Prof John Yates, Dr Shan Zhong
Research Centres
University of Manchester Aerospace Research Institute (UMARI)