Research Fellow – Integrating and Automating Airport Operations – (Fixed Term) School of Engineering Location: Brayford Salary: From £30,122 per annum This post is fixed term for 12 months Closing Date: Sunday 16 September 2012 Reference: ENG5007C This is an EPSRC funded research post, and is also associated with the EPSRC Airport Energy Technologies Network […]
Research Projects
PESRI and Power and Energy with Siemens
A New Approach… The first purpose-built School of Engineering to be created in the UK for more than 20 years. The development is a collaboration between the University and Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd. as part of a £37M development with support from HEFCE, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and part funded […]
Laser and Photonics Engineering Group: Groundbreaking Research into Cleaner Combustion in Gas Turbines Article
Groundbreaking work by the Laser Engineering Group into cleaner combustion in gas turbines has been published by the University Alliance in Problem Solved: University Research Answering Today’s Challenges. Supported by Siemens Industrial Gas Turbines Ltd., the work by Jonathan Griffiths and Prof. Jonathan Lawrence has developed a laser-based ignition system for use in stationary gas […]
EU FP7 ACHEON Project Potential Application to Air Transport
Jet deflection systems are important to define novel concepts of air vehicle with enhanced performances, manoeuvrability shorter take off and landing spaces: It will permit to explore radical new concept of aerial vehicle and to give a realization to some very advanced concepts which have been intuited during the history of aviation but couldn’t be […]
EU FP7 ACHEON Project: Plasma Enhanced Actuator for Coanda Effect
PEACE Concept The second IDEA originating the ACHEON project is in the PEACE system which is in a very preliminary stage of development. It is the PEACE project started at Universidade da Beira Interior. PEACE is the acronym of Plasma Enhanced Actuator for Coanda Effect. PEACE aims to produce an active control of the Coanda […]