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RAeS Specialist Group AERODYNAMICS TOOLS AND METHODS IN AIRCRAFT DESIGN

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PROFESSOR JONATHAN COOPER FRAeS, PRESIDENT, in 1987 and joined the Aerodynamics Department at ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. He was Jonathan Cooper is the Royal Academy of a QinetiQ Approved Technical Authority responsible Engineering Sir George White Professor of for the aerodynamics clearance of aircraft modified to Engineering at the University of Bristol. He was educated accommodate trials or upgrade equipment and became a at Cheltenham Bournside School, and then obtained a BSc QinetiQ Technical Fellow in 2008. He is currently Professor in Engineering Mathematics and a PhD in Aeronautical of Engineering at UHI and holds a personal Chair as Engineering from Queen Mary College, University of Professor of Experimental and Applied Aerodynamics. London. He worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Aerospace Establishment, Farnborough, for three He is Chair of the RAeS Aerodynamics Specialist Group years before joining the University of Manchester in October and is a Visiting Professor at Zhengzhou University of 1989 as a ‘new-blood’ lecturer. Prof Cooper spent 18 years Aeronautics and at Changsha University of Science of there, becoming the last Head of School of the Manchester Technology, both in China. School of Engineering. Following a brief spell as Professor of Aerostructures and Aeroelasticity at the University of 1) SCOTT MORTON, CREATE AIR VEHICLES PROJECT Liverpool, in February 2012 Prof Cooper moved to the MANAGER, US ARMY Airbus sponsored Sir George White Chair in Aerospace Dr. Scott Morton, a Fellow of the RAeS, manages the Air Engineering at the University of Bristol and was awarded a Vehicles component of the US DoD HPCMP CREATE Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in 2013. Program. The project, CREATE-AV, produces a suite of three major products, ADAPT, Helios, and Kestrel, delivering Prof Cooper has an international reputation in the fields of capabilities to the U.S. Defense Aerospace Industry in aeroelasticity, loads and structural dynamics, has published response to prioritized needs of the U.S. Armed Services. over 400 technical papers in journals and conferences, and is the co-author of the Wiley text book “Introduction to He received his BS from Parks College in 1985, his MS and Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads”. Over the past 30 years PhD from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1989 he has worked closely with industry to develop solutions and 1996. He has specialised in the areas of high AOA that enable aircraft designs to be more fuel efficient aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, and computational stability and environmentally friendly through exploitation of the and control in his 34-year career. interactions between the airflow and aircraft structures. 2.1) LUÍS TRINDADE, DESIGN ,UNIVERSITY Jonathan Cooper has been involved in a wide range of RAeS OF BEIRA INTERIOR activities. He was elected to the RAeS Council in 2013 Luís G. Trindade has a Master Degree in Aeronautical and has been chair of the Professional Standards Board, Engineering by the University of Beira Interior, Portugal. As a member of the Structures & Materials and Corporate passionate for aviation, his background is Simulation studies Accreditation Committees and an Associate Editor of within his academic record, where he developed several the Aeronautical Journal. He has also been a committee activities and integrated a project for the development and member of the Manchester and Bristol Branches. Prof design of a new aircraft. He attended the Modelling and Cooper is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Simulation of Air Vehicles course at Cranfield University, the Royal Aeronautical Sociery and the American Institute England and the Safety and Security course in the of Aeronautical and Astronautics (AIAA) and has been a Portuguese Air Force. He is also certified in Part M, Part Chartered Engineer for over 25 years. He is President of the 145 and Human Factors. He is currently a trainee for Design RAeS for 2019 – 2020. Engineer (Avionics Team) in OGMA – Indústria Aeronáutica de Portugal S.A. PROFESSOR ANDREW RAE FRAeS, PROFESSOR OF ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND 2.2) NIGEL TAYLOR, CAPABILITY LEADER, ISLANDS AERODYNAMIC TOOLS & METHODS, MBDA UK LTD Professor Andrew Rae graduated from Imperial College Nigel gained his PhD in applied aerodynamics from the

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University of Southampton and spent 6 years at DRA/DERA Engineering. As part of this role he worked as subcontractor Farnborough before joining the Aerodynamics Group at at Airbus, Filton UK, for which the main purpose is MBDA Filton MBDA in 1999. He assumed his current role in developing new capability for aerodynamic optimisation. 2006. He is a member of the AIAA Meshing, Visualisation In November 2017, he was appointed as Research Fellow & Computational Environments Technical Committee and in Applied Aerodynamics in the Centre for Aeronautics. Dr the organising committee of the AIAA Geometry and Mesh Pasquale is currently working on different ATI projects led by Generation Workshops. He chairs the AIAA Geometry Airbus. Modelling Working Group. Nigel is a Fellow of the RAeS and an AIAA Associate Fellow. 5.1) SIMON PRINCE, SENIOR LECTURER, CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY 3.1) DR SIMONE COLONIA, AERODYNAMICS ENGINEER, Not available at time of print. After achieving a masters in Aerodynamics and a master in 5.2) GUSTAVO KRUPA, PHD CANDIDATE, CRANFIELD Space Transportation Systems at the “Sapienza University UNIVERSITY of Rome”, Simone Colonia moved to the to Gustavo P. Krupa is a PhD candidate in Aerospace obtain a Ph.D. at the “University of Liverpool” with a research Engineering in Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Robust on “CFD for Partially-Rarefied High-Speed Gases”. He then Multi-Disciplinary Optimisation sponsored by Airbus and worked at the “University of Glasgow” as research assistant Cranfield University. He is also interested in Model-Based in “Transition Modelling for Wind Turbine Applications”. He Systems Engineering and Data Science applied to advanced joined Airbus Group Innovations in 2016 as “CFD Simulation Aircraft Design. and Aerodynamic Modelling Engineer” before moving to Airbus Defence and Space in 2017 to hold the position of 5.2) JOE LOXHAM, PHD STUDENT, CRANFIELD “Zephyr Aerodynamic Engineer”. UNIVERSITY Not available at time of print. 3.2) ARJUN BISWAS, AERODYNAMICS ENGINEER, MBDA MISSILE SYSTEMS UK 5.2) TIMOLEON KIPOUROS, LECTURER, CRANFIELD Aerodynamicist at MBDA UK, Filton with around five years’ UNIVERSITY experience in investigating missile design trade spaces using Not available at time of print. a variety of tools, methods & techniques. Responsible in recent years for the design, implementation and support of 6) KEVIN HACKETT, AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING the EnGAM missile concept design environment. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ESDU IHS Kevin Hackett completed a five-year apprenticeship with 3.2) NIGEL TAYLOR, CAPABILITY LEADER, at Hatfield and graduated with a BSc AERODYNAMIC TOOLS & METHODS, MBDA UK LTD (1st class Hons) in Aeronautical Engineering. He spent 14 Please refer to 2.2. years in the Aerodynamics department, working on wing designs for several Airbus aircraft, culminating in the A330/ 4.1) PROFESSOR ANDREW RAE FRAeS, PROFESSOR OF A340 aircraft. He then transferred to Raytheon Corporate ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND Jets working on future project studies and supporting the ISLANDS development of the U125A aircraft for the Japanese Coast Please refer to previous biography provided. Guard. He joined QinetiQ (then DRA) in 1995 and spent 13 years working on and leading several UK and European 4.2) DR MARK QUINN, LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF research programs covering advanced wing design concepts, MANCHESTER wind-tunnel testing and flow control. During this period, Mark is a graduate of the University of Manchester in both he provided aerodynamic and design support for the world 2009 (MEng) and 2013 (PhD) and subsequently worked record breaking Zephyr HALE UAV. He left QinetiQ in 1998 at ARA developing optical measurement methods. Mark and currently works for IHS Markit (ESDU) in the Transonic returned to the University of Manchester in late 2014 Aerodynamics Group, developing methods and data as a lecturer and is now PI on several industry-focused sheets relating to good design practice. He also provides research projects and also director of the undergraduate consultancy for a number of clients. He has published and degree programme. presented several papers and is co-inventor on a number of patents. He achieved Charted Engineer status in 1990 and 5.1) DR DAVIDE DI PASQUALE, RESERACH FELLOW IN became a Fellow of the RAeS in 2005. APPLIED AERODYNAMICS, CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY In September 2011 Davide joined Cranfield University 7) PROFESSOR JOAQUIM MARTINS, PROFESSOR, where he embarked on a PhD, Industrial case fellowship, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN partially funded by Airbus UK, concerning the Multi- Joaquim Martins is a Professor in the Department of Disciplinary Design for Whole Aircraft Applications. After at the University of Michigan. From he completed his PhD, he was appointed as Research 2002 to 2009, he was a faculty member in the University of Assistant at Cranfield University, in the Centre for Propulsion Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, where he held a Tier

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2 Canada Research Chair. He obtained his undergraduate for the past 20 years. He has a background in experimental degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, vehicle aerodynamics, facility aerodynamics, uncertainty London, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in quantification and test technique development. Dr. Walker Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is Fellow of the Royal represents test technology development and advanced Aeronautical Society, an Associate Editor for the Journal of capability of facilities at NASA Langley. Aircraft and for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 12) JOSEPH MORRISON, ASSOCIATE PROJECT 8.1) IAN SMITH, HEAD OF TESTING, 5M WIND TUNNEL, MANAGER, TRANSFORMATIONAL TOOLS & QINETIQ TECHNOLOGIES, NASA Ian Smith started his working life in 1986, working on a Mr. Morrison is the Associate Project Manager for the turbine test rig at Pyestock. He moved over the road to the Transformational Tools and Technologies (TTT) Project 5m Wind Tunnel at RAE Farnborough in 1990 as a Test at NASA which focuses on critical cross-cutting tool Controller. He has been at the wind tunnel ever since and is development and advancement of critical aeronautics now Head of Testing for the facility. technologies. His primary areas of research interest include turbulence modeling with two-equation, algebraic 8.2) DR NIGEL TAYLOR, CAPABILITY LEADER, Reynolds stress and differential Reynolds stress models AERODYNAMIC TOOLS & METHODS, MBDA UK LTD and their implementations, uncertainty quantification, Please refer to 2.2. verification and validation, multi-disciplinary analysis and design, and high-performance computing. Previously, Mr. 9.1) MALCOLM PEMBERY, TEST CONTROLLER, 5M WIND Morrison was Chief Engineer for Modeling and Simulation TUNNEL, QINETIQ in the Research Directorate at NASA Langley Research Malcolm worked at the Altitude Engine Test Facility at Center where he led the NASA Langley Comprehensive RAE Pyestock and transferred to the 5m Wind Tunnel as Digital Transformation team. a Test Controller. He became interested in simplifying the simulation of aero-engines on commercial aircraft models in 13.1) PROFESSOR JONATHAN MORRISON FRAeS, order to make its use more prevalent and economical. PROFESSOR OF EXPERIMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS IMPERIAL COLLEGE 9.2) ANDREI CIMPEROU, CFMS Jonathan Morrison holds the chair of Experimental Fluid Not available at time of print. Mechanics in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College. Recent work has focused on fundamentals of 10.1) SIMON WAY, AIRBUS OPERATIONS LTD turbulent flow and control including novel approaches to flow Not available at time of print. control. He is currently exploring instabilities in transitional flows as part of the LFC-UK Programme Grant and the 10.2) MATTHEW FORSTER, BAE SYSTEMS correspondence between the scalar and momentum fields Matt joined the Computational Engineering group at as part of the Transpiration Cooling Systems Programme BAE Systems in 2017 after completing his PhD from the Grant. Other recent work has developed novel drag- University of Liverpool, where he investigated numerical reduction techniques for bluff-body flows both in open loop simulations of flow control. and with feedback control. He is also exploring travelling surface waves for turbulent drag reduction with support 11) PROFESSOR MARILYN SMITH, PROFESSOR AND from Airbus. He is currently a member of the “Aircraft of the DIRECTOR, VERTICAL LIFT RESEARCH CENTER, Future” Advisory Group of the ATI. He is Director and chairs VERTICAL LIFT CENTER OF EXCELLENCE, GEORGIA the Management Board of the National Wind Tunnel Facility INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (NWTF), funded by EPSRC and the ATI. He led an exhibit at Dr. Marilyn Smith is the Director of the Vertical Lift Research the Royal Society Summer Exhibition, 2014, “Smart Wing Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She worked in Design: Science Imitating Nature”. industry before joining the School of Aerospace Engineering in 1997, where she is a full Professor. She is a Technical 13.2) LUCAS KOB, PHD CANDIDATE, UNIVERSITY OF Fellow of the Vertical Flight Society and AIAA Fellow. SURREY She is currently on the Board of Directors for the Vertical Lucas Leander Kob is currently studying for a PhD in the Flight Society and Vertical Lift Consortium. She has over Aerodynamics & Environmental Flow Research Group at the 180 publications and technical awards in the areas of University of Surrey. Before that he received a Master of computational aeroelasticity, CFD, reduced-order modeling, Science in Aerospace Propulsion from Cranfield University and design. Several of her research products have been and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from adopted by the US government and industry. Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.

12) DR ERIC WALKER, CHIEF ENGINEER FOR TEST 13.2) JOHN DOHERTY, HEAD OF CENTRE FOR OPERATION EXCELLENCE, NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH AERODYNAMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW, CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Dr. Walker has been a Research Engineer at NASA Langley Not available at time of print.

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14.1) DR MARIAN ZASTAWNY, ADVANCED APPLICATION ENGINEER, SIEMENS PLM Marian obtained his BSc in Aerospace Engineering in 2009 at the Warsaw University of Technology, followed by an MSc in Aeronautics from California Institute of Technology. In 2013 he received a PhD at Imperial College London for his work on “Fundamental Understanding of Turbulent Gas-Solid Flows”. After graduation he started a professional career at the Aircraft Research Association where he was employed in the Aerodynamic Capability Department. His diverse research portfolio included the formulation of innovative methods for buffet prediction, and the introduction of novel simulation and optimization methods such as Variable Fidelity Modelling. He was also responsible for the development of specialised software for post-processing aerodynamic data from wind tunnel tests. In 2016, Marian joined Siemens PLM Software, where he is a member of the Software Development department and works as an Advanced Research Engineer responsible for the CFD division. His work involves implementation and validation of novel scientific models used in fluid dynamics.

14.1) KARTHIK MANI, SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, SIEMENS PLM Not available at time of print.

14.1) BRIAN LOCKWOOD, PROGRAM MANAGER SIEMENS PLM Not available at time of print.

14.2) TBC

15) JEFFREY SLOTNICK, TECHNICAL FELLOW, COMPUTATIONAL AERODYNAMICS, THE BOEING COMPANY Mr. Jeffrey Slotnick is a Boeing Technical Fellow with over 30 years of experience in the areas of CFD and applied aerodynamics, with particular emphasis in the application of the OVERFLOW overset grid flow solver (and related tools) to complex aerospace air and space vehicle platforms. Has been a champion of CFD process development and automation, including leveraging long-term collaborations with government, academic, and industry groups to infuse advanced CFD technology into Boeing. He is the lead author on the NASA-sponsored CFD Vision 2030 study report. Mr Slotnick graduated with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1986.

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