CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The Agenda for the conference is below.
Day 1: Thursday 25th May
| Time | Session | Presenter (Topic) | |
| 09:30-10:30 | Conference Registration & Coffee Reception | Poster Session - Current & New Facilities | |
| 10:30-10:35 | Welcome | Mike Jesson - Birmingham | |
| 10.35-10.50 | About the NWTF | Jonathan Morrison - Imperial | |
| 10:50-12:00 | Session 1 Research Capabilities at NWTFs - Art of the Possible. (Chair: Chetan Jagadeesh) 6 x 10 minute presentations with 2 minutes for questions and changeover. | Renan Soares - Southampton On the Land, Air and Sea – Recent Applied Aerodynamics Experiments the University of Southampton facilities Mahdi Azarpeyvand - Bristol Experimental Aeroacoustic Research at Bristol David Soper - Birmingham Unlocking future freight transport capability through novel moving model vehicle aerodynamics research David Birch - Surrey How low can you go? The EnFlo Environmental Wind Tunnel and its measurement challenges Magnus Gregory - Southampton Underwater PIV benchmark at the University of Southampton Boldrewood Towing Tank David Angland - Southampton University of Southampton anechoic wind tunnel – capabilites, current work and future plans | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | Poster Session - Current & New Facilities | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Session 2 Snapshot of Research (Chair: Bharathram Ganapathisubramani) 5 x10 minute presentations with 2 minutes for questions and changeover | Richard Green - Glasgow Performance of non-conventional aircraft tail configurations Kwing-So Choi - Nottingham Leading-edge flow separation control using DBD plasma: Effect of the Reynolds number Olivier Cadot - Liverpool An experimental sensitivity analysis of the aerodynamics of a simplified ground vehicle to the body clearance, yaw and pitch Isabella Fumerola - Imperial The ‘Big and Slow’ surface wave experiment for skin friction drag reduction Matteo Carpenteri - Surrey Non-neutral flows: simulating the full range of atmospheric conditions in the EnFlo Environmental Wind Tunnel | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Coffee Break | Poster Session - Current & New Facilities | |
| 14:30-15:30 | Session 3 Industry Presentations (Chair: Ian Smith) 5 x 10 minute presentations with 2 minutes for questions and changeover | Edward Jinks Siemens Acoustic Wind Tunnel Testing Roger Gardner - UK ARC Nicolas Oettle - JLR Wind tunnel needs from the perspective of an automotive manufacturer David Roberts - ARA Stephen Lawson - MBDA | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | ||
16:00-16:45 | Key Speaker (Intro: Paul White) | Steve Rowley - QinetiQ Exploitation pathways – joining the dots between research and industry | |
| 16:45-17:00 | Close | Mike Jesson | |
| 17:00-18:00 | NWTF Management Board Meeting | Management Board Members | |
| 18:00-18:30 | Drinks Reception | ||
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Conference Dinner (Assembly Room) | ||
Day 2: Friday 26th May
| Time | Session | Presenter (Topic) |
| 08:30-09:30 | Conference Registration | Poster Session - Current & New Facilities |
| 09:30-09:40 | Welcome | Mike Jesson - Birmingham |
| 09:40-10:40 | Session 4 Snapshot of High Speed Research (Chair: David Roberts) 5 x 10 minute presentations with 2 minute questions and change over | Mark Quinn - Manchester Intake unstart testing in the University of Manchester HSST Kshitij Sabnis - Cambridge Transonic aerodynamics of aircraft engine nacelles in off-design conditions Matthew McGilvray - Oxford 1. Testing of aeroheating during satellite demise in the Oxford T6 Stalker Tunnel 2. Combined shock speed and spectral radiance probe for use in a hypervelocity shock tube Luke Doherty - Oxford 1. Internal heat transfer measurements on hollow bodies in rarefied flow 2. Effects of macro-roughness on the supersonic lateral separation of spheres in the Oxford High Density Tunnel 3. Development and application of BackgroundOriented Schlieren (BOS) for hypersonic free-flight. Christopher Wheeler - Oxford Surface pressure measurements on a free-flying cone at Mach 7 using pressure sensitive paint |
| 10:40-11:10 | Coffee Break | Poster Session - Current & New Facilities |
| 11:10-12:00 | Key Speaker (Intro: Matthew McGilvray) | Johan Steelant - ESA Multipurpose and Future of Wind Tunnels |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | Poster Session - Current & New Facilities |
| 13:00-13:30 | Key Speaker (Intro: Kwing-So Choi) | Gary Page - Loughborough and Paul White - Airbus NWTF Experimental Database |
13:30-14:00 | Session 5 NWTF Subgroup Activities (Chair: Richard Green) 5 minutes per presenter | Ashley Evans - Boeing Novel Instrumentation Subgroup – Industry requirements Paul White - Airbus Tunnel Managers Forum Mahdi Azarpeyvand - Bristol NWTF Group Projects Richard Green - Glasgow Training Workshops Subgroup Raul Vazquez-Diaz - Rolls Royce TRL5+ Wind Tunnels |
| 14:00-14:30 | Coffee Break | Poster Session - Current & New Facilities |
| 14:30-15:30 | Panel Session Vision for the NWTF 5 minute presentation from panellists followed by audience Q&A | Steve Rowley - QinetiQ - Host Joanthan Morrison - Imperial Raul Vazquez-Diaz - Rolls Royce Stephen Lawson - MBDA Stuart Gates - ATI Mike Simpson - EPSRC |
| 15:30-15:40 | Close | Prof Jonathan Morrison - Imperial |