Professor Ann Gaitonde
B.Sc.(Exon.), Ph.D.(Bristol), ACE (Bristol)
Current positions
Professor of Aerodynamics
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Contact
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Research interests
I am joint head of the Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research Group. My research concerns the development of numerical methods for the prediction of unsteady fluid flows. My main areas of interest are flows about wings and aircraft, rotors, incompressible flows including free surface flows and non-aerospace applications, reduced order modelling, continuation and aerodynamic-structural coupling.
Current Areas of Research include:
-Computational Aeroelastics
-Reduced Order Modelling
-Continuation and bifurcation analysis
-Gust simulation and modelling
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
AEROGUST
Principal Investigator
Description
AeroGust (Aeroelastic Gust Modelling) is a collaborative research project between industry and academia funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement number 636053.
The project…Managing organisational unit
Department of Aerospace EngineeringDates
01/05/2015 to 30/09/2018
ALPES
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
Aircraft Loads Prediction using Enhanced Simulation (ALPES) is an EC FP7 Marie Curie European Industrial Doctorate Training Network. The aim of the network is to improve the prediction accuracy and…Managing organisational unit
Department of Aerospace EngineeringDates
01/10/2013 to 30/09/2017
Thesis supervisions
Efficient and Accurate Gust Loads Simulations
Supervisors
A New Aerodynamic Model for Unsteady Separated Flow on High Aspect Ratio Flexible Wings
Supervisors
Reduced Order Models for Efficient Gust Modelling
Supervisors
Simulation of observable in-flight shockwave shadows
Supervisors
A spacetime framework for aerodynamics of complex motions
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
08/06/2023Comparison of Aircraft Loads Using URANS and Actuator Disk Modelling of Propellers at High Incidence
2023 AIAA AVIATION Forum
Including Steady State Information in Reduced Order Modelling for Tiltrotor Aircraft Stability Analysis
AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum
Comparison of Aircraft Loads Using URANS and Actuator Disk Modelling of Propellers
AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum
Wake Preservation Using a Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian Solver
AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum
A frequency domain approach for reduced- order transonic aerodynamic modelling
The Aeronautical Journal
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