Activities
Professional Activities
Chairman of NAFEMS CFD working group
Member of the editorial board for the NAFEMS International Journal of CFD Case Studies
Member of NAFEMS Technical Liaison Group
Founding Member of the Professional Simulation Engineer scheme and certified to advanced level
Commissioning Editor for Benchmark magazine 2016-2019
FE-Net Participant 2003-2005; European thematic network for promoting best practice industrial application of finite element technology
Limited AutoSim participant; EU funded project on analysis within the automotive industry (2006-2008)
STEM Ambassador
Co-ordinator for NODES (NAFEMS Open-network for Diversity in Engineering Simulation
Presentations
Analysis Planning and Simulation Data Management: Complementary Techniques to Ensure Confidence in Simulation, NAFEMS World Congress, Quebec, June 2019
Analysis Planning and Simulation Data Management, Complementary Techniques to Assure Confidence in Simulation Results. Increasing Confidence in Numerical Simulation, NAFEMS Nordic seminar, Oslo, December 2017 - co-keynote speaker
The Challenges of Validation: An Industrial Perspective. NAFEMS seminar on Quality and Trust in Industrial CFD 6, Gaydon April 2014 - also chaired and co-organised
Validation challenges of Industrial CFD, 2nd International Workshop on Validation of Computational Mechanics Models, VANESSA project. London, UK. November 2013 - keynote speaker
Workshop on CAD for CFD at NAFEMS 2010 UK Conference, Oxford June 2010 - co-chaired
Integrated Design, Search and Optimisation for All, NAFEMS World Congress 2009, Crete, June 2009
Layout Optimisation Brings Step Change in Wind Farm Yield, All Energy, Aberdeen May 2009
Demonstration of the Quality and Reliability of CFD Simulations: Customer Requirements, NAFEMS seminar on CFD Simulation in the Aerospace Industry: State-of-the-art in Quality and Reliability 5, Nottingham, March 2009 - also co-chairman
Supporting Design Engineers using FloWizard to Simulate Hydraulic Assemblies, NAFEMS seminar on Front-Loading CFD in the Design Process, Coventry 2008 - also co-chairman
Performance in Icing Conditions of Centrisep® Engine Air Particle Separator (EAPS) Installations, SAE international conference on Aircraft and Engine Icing, Seville, 2007
Current and Continuing Issues in CFD, NAFEMS Fitness for Purpose Seminar, ESA, Noordwijk 2006 and also at AutoSim Technology Workshop, Lisbon 2007
Quality Issues for CFD, Management and Quality Assurance Workshop, FE-Net Technology Workshop, Spain, 2004
Planning a CFD Analysis, Quality and Reliability of CFD Simulations. Joint NAFEMS / ERCOFTAC seminar, Coventry, 2004 - also chair and organiser
The Validation of a Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of the Flow into a Helicopter Engine Intake, NAFEMS Seminar, Industrial Turbulent Flows: CFD simulation and validation, IMechE, London 2003 - also chair and organiser
The Application of CFD to Simulate the Flow into a Helicopter Engine Intake, Fluent User Group Meeting, Sheffield 2003
CFD Modelling of Bubble Driven Flows, NAFEMS Multiphase Flow seminar, University of Warwick, 2000ent team (6 experts) for LinkedIn Computational Fluid Dynamics Group
Lecturing
Engineering Apprentices BTEC at Peta UK
Various XFlow user training courses: throughout 2012
Epsilon Euskadi METCA MSc. Applied Automotive CFD 2010 & 2011
Cranfield Uni. Motorsport Engineering and Management MSc. Aerodynamics and CFD, Oct 2010
Practical CFD: Overview and Hints and Tips, NAFEMS webinar October 2009
Short lecture series: ‘Practical CFD’ for Environmental Engineering MSc, Portsmouth Uni, May 2008
Chaired Discussions
Open CFD discussion. NAFEMS World Congress June 2019, Quebec June 2019
Analysis Planning and Simulation Data Management: Complementary Techniques to Ensure Confidence in Simulation discussion session. NAFEMS 2018 UK conference, Milton Keynes July 2018
Open CFD discussion. NAFEMS World Congress June 2017, Stockholm June 2017
CFD validation panel discussion, NAFEMS UK conference, Telford, June 2016
Open CFD discussion session, NAFEMS World Congress 2009, Crete, June 2009
Published Books and Articles
How to Plan a CFD Analysis (author), NAFEMS 2002
How to Understand CFD Jargon (editing author), NAFEMS 2003
Technical editorial: interactive simulation, Benchmark October 2018
Applications of extended reality: working in the virtual world, Benchmark October 2018
Technical editorial: intelligent hoarding, Benchmark July 2018
Technical editorial: digital twins, Benchmark April 2018
Digital Twin - looking behind the buzzwords, Benchmark April 2018
Technical editorial: education, training and professional development, Benchmark October 2017
Technical editorial: optimisation, Benchmark July 2017
Big questions for the simulation community, Benchmark April 2017
Technical editorial: beyond conventional, Benchmark January 2017
Technical editorial: confidence in simulation results: thoughts from the technical working groups, Benchmark July 2016
Panel discussion on CFD validation, Benchmark July 2016
Technical editorial: high performance computing, Benchmark April 2016
Event review: HPC & NAFEMS, Benchmark April 2016
CAE clouds with silver linings, Benchmark April 2016
Seminars Attended
IMechE evening lecture: The UK's Top Formula Student Electric Car: Team Bath Racing Electric, Portsmouth, October 2018
Osborne Reynolds Day, Manchester, September 2018
Improving the impact of engineering simulation, NAFEMS seminar, Gaydon, January 2018
Efficient preparation of quality simulation models, NAFEMS seminar, Birmingham, October 2017
Thermal Modelling, NAFEMS seminar, Madrid, Spain, February 2017
A Guide to High-Fidelity CFD for Industry, NAFEMS, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, November 2016
Improving HPC Adoption in Engineering Simulation, NAFEMS, Manchester, UK, February 2016
A Guide to Hybrid RANS-LES Methods: Industrial Examples and Theory. NAFEMS, Oxfordshire, UK, September 2015
NAFEMS / ERCOFTAC seminars on Quality and Reliability in CFD 1 (2004), 2 (2005), 3 (2007), 4 (2008), 5 (2010), 6 (2014)
Computational Aero-acoustics, NAFEMS seminar, Gaydon , UK. November 2013
Various IMechE lectures and seminars including: Healthcare Ventilation, Nov 2013, Merlin Icing Operations - A case study Sept 2011
RAeS regional lecture: Air accident Investigations, October 2011
NAFEMS LES Awareness seminar: Turbulence modelling beyond RANS, Rugby 2010
Simulation supported engineering: Assessing variability with stochastic simulation, NAFEMS Oct 2009
IMechE seminars: Grand Review in the State-of-the-Art in the Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow, April 2001 & 2009 and CFD validation - how much is enough, September 2008
NAFEMS Fitness for Purpose Seminar, ESA 2006 & AutoSim Technology Workshop, Lisbon 2007
Training and Workshops Attended
IMechE Interviewer Workshop, London, October 2018
STEM ambassador induction training, Andover, January 2018
IMechE Personal Development Workshop: Using Social Media to promote your business, your career and personal development, Portsmouth, UK, March 2016
XFlow training, Paris, August 2011
SIMBEST meeting: Simulation and Modelling – State of the Art and Industry Best Practice, Manchester, UK, February 2016
NAFEMS management forum on skills management for engineering simulation, 2007 & 2008
Training course: Introduction to AmeSim system simulation software, 2007
Newmerical Technologies Int. Effective Use of CFD for In-flight Icing Certification, Barcelona Spain 2006
Conferences
NAFEMS UK Conferences 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018 (CFD sessions chaired)
NAFEMS World Congresses 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019 (CFD sessions and discussions chaired)
UK fluids conference, Manchester September 2018
NAFEMS DACH Regional Conference, Bamberg, Germany May 2018
8th MIRA International Vehicle Aerodynamics Conference, Oxfordshire, UK. October 2010
RAeS Conference on Rotorcraft Operations in Icing Conditions, London 2006
Ansys Fluent User Group Meetings 2000, 2003, 2005, 2008 and various Fluent / ICEM-CFD events