Dr Sen Wang is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Aeroacoustics and Aerodynamics at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on promoting and enabling clean-energy aviation. His work is centred on experimental fluid mechanics, with particular emphasis on the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic performance of eVTOL vehicles and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concepts. He addresses both fundamental flow physics and applied challenges in future aviation, including the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic penalties arising from complex flow phenomena such as flow separation and propulsor-induced interactions.
His research is primarily experimental, employing advanced measurement techniques such as planar, stereoscopic, and tomographic particle image velocimetry (PIV), three-dimensional particle tracking velocimetry (PTV), and combined pressure and acoustic measurements, supported by analytical and semi-empirical methods for performance–noise assessment. Before joining Bristol, Dr Wang was a postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology, where he contributed to the multidisciplinary preliminary design and assessment of UAM vehicles. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta in 2023, where his research focused on investigations of unsteady phenomena in trailing-edge separation, and active/passive control using vortex generators.