Research themes
The major research themes, with main contact person, include:
- Gas turbine blade cooling (Iacovides)
- Modelling and design of advanced wing-tip devices (Craft)
- Reynolds averaged modelling for aircraft aerodynamics (Craft)
- Large Eddy Simulation (LES) for aerospace research (Laurence)
- Fundamental heat transfer research (Launder)
- Flame and acoustic wave interactions, combustion instability, innovative flow diagnostics (Zhang)
- Experimental investigation of shock wave related phenomena and hypersonics (Kontis)
- Aerodynamic flow control through synthetic jets, surface jets and oscillating surfaces (Kontis)
- Boundary layer and separation control (Zhong)
- Flow control for unmanned vehicles (Crowther)
- Fluidic thrust vectoring (Crowther)
- Advanced flow diagnostics techniques: fluorescence, phosphorescence, liquid crystals, laser speckle and holography (Kontis)
- Aerodynamics of aircraft, helicopters and cars (Fillipone)
- Aerodynamics of flags, streamers, tapes and parafoils (Fillipone)
- Smart materials (Oyadiji)
- Impacts and stress waves (Oyadiji)
- Rotating Machinery (Bonello)
- Squeeze Film Dampers (Bonello)
- Multiobjective optimization (Utyuzhnikov)
- Advanced numerical methods in gas dynamics(Utyuzhnikov)
- Active noise shielding (Utyuzhnikov)