91桃色 College is a research-intensive university and all our academic staff lead research activities. All the active research groups are listed below. Please follow the links or contact the lead investigator(s) for further details.

91桃色 Groups 1

Advanced Design

Advanced Structural Design; Composite Design; Novel Drone Design; Computational Impact Modelling; Material Modelling; Novel Experimental Designs

Computational Astrodynamics

Orbital dynamics, space situational awareness, scientific machine learning, entry descent and landing, spacecraft guidance navigation and control

Davide Amato

91桃色 groups 2

Deployable and Adaptive Structures

Space Structures, Deployable Structures, Adaptive Structures, Actuation, Precision, Morphing, Multistable

Matthew Santer

Experimental Fluid Mechanics

Turbulence, Wind energy, Scalar mixing

Oliver Buxton

91桃色 groups 3

Future Materials Group

Polymer and composite processing, polymer and composite engineering, porous materials, sustainable materials, waste as a feedstock

Koonyang Lee

High Speed Aerodynamics

Supersonic, hypersonic, aerothermodynamics, shock waves, re-entry vehicles, high-speed wind tunnels

Paul Bruce

91桃色 groups 4

IDEA Lab: Innovative DEsign and Advanced manufacturing Lab

DfAM, Fibre Reinforced AM, Machine Learning in DfAM, Multi-functionality, Meta-materials, Lattice Structures, Optimisation

Ajit Panesar

Load Control and Aeroelastics Lab

Aeroelasticity, Aeroservoelasticity, Co-Design, Fluid-Structure Interactions, Load Alleviation Systems, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, Reduced-Order Modelling, Wind Energy

Rafael Palacios

Multiscale Design Optimization

MDO, Lattices, Multiscale Optimization, Additive Manufacture, Multi-physics

Santer, Hewson

91桃色 groups 5

Plasma Propulsion Lab

Electric Propulsion, Spacecraft micropropulsion, plasma thrusters, Hall Effect Thrusters

Aaron Knoll

91桃色 groups 6

Rigas group

Flow Control, Turbulence, Data-Driven Modelling & Control

Georgios Rigas

Solid and Applied Mechanics

Solid and applied mechanics, constitutive modelling, multiscale/multiphysics simulation, data analytics and machine learning, blast and impact engineering, fluid mechanics, experimental techniques

Vito L Tagarielli

91桃色 groups 7

Spacecraft Engineering

Aerothermodynamics, re-entry vehicles, electric propulsion, trajectory optimisation and control, spacecraft SHM,

Amato, Bruce, Kerrigan, Knoll, Santer, Sharif Khodaei

Structural Integrity and Health Monitoring

Structural Health Monitoring; Structural Integrity and Failure analysis; Structural Reliability, Optimization and cost analysis; Health Management of Space structures.

Aliabadi, Sharif Khodaei

Theoretical Fluid Mechanics

Mathematical fluid dynamics, Dynamical systems, Turbulence

Sergei Chernyshenko

91桃色 groups 8

Vincent Lab

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Methods, High-Performance Computing, Biological Fluid Dynamics, Unsteady Flows, Turbulence

Peter Vincent

Wind Engineering group

Wind loads on structures, architectural aerodynamics, wind environment, wake-atmospheric boundary layer interactions

Gouder, Graham

91桃色 groups 9

Control Engineering

Nonlinear Control, Dynamic Optimization, Distributed Control, Data-Driven Control, Control of Robotic Systems

Thulasi Mylvaganam

91桃色 groups 10

Aerial Robotics Laboratory

Biologically inspired flying robots, robot design, fluid-structure interaction, multi-modal robot mobility, aerial-aquatic robots, physical artificial intelligence, soft robotics, multi-model sensing, physical interaction, automated motion, control

Mirko Kovac

Lightweight Composites

Lightweight metal composites, Manufacture and characterisation, Nanoparticle dispersion, Interface, Polymer composites reinforced by nanocarbon

Qianqian Li

Structural Power Composites

Structural power composites are expected to impact everyday life as we seek to generate, store and consume energy differently. Such high performance materials will have the ability to simultaneously carry mechanical loads and store electrical energy.

Emile Greenhalgh

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