Fluids, Acoustics & Vibration Research Group
The Fluids, Acoustics & Vibration Research Group has been conducting research for many years on modelling and analysis of flow/structure interactions and vibro-acoustic problems. The research activities of the group cover a wide range of interdependent disciplines in which specific expertise has been developed and used to generate innovative solutions to complex engineering problems.
Group Leaders
- Prof. Henry Rice - Professor
- Dr. Craig Meskell - Associate Professor
- Dr. Gareth J. Bennett - Assistant Professor
Selected Research Projects
- Fluid-induced vibration in heat exchanger tube bundles
- TEENI
- Noise Source Identification For Ducted Fans
- NACRE (I)
- NACRE (II)
- An Investigation of how the turbulent length and time scales are affected by nozzles with mixing enhancement features
- Beamforming
- Coupling between fluid flow-induced vibration and noise in tube arrays
- Flow-induced acoustic resonance in bluff body flows
- Investigation of fluid forces responsible for fluid elastic instability in tube arrays
- Metropolis
- Coherent structure analysis in jet flows
- Electret microphone development
- Silencer
Research Staff and Students
| Name | Position | Tel. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Henry Rice | Professor | +353 1 896 1996 | hrice@tcd.ie |
| Dr. Craig Meskell | Associate Professor | +353 1 896 1455 | cmeskell@tcd.ie |
| Dr. Gareth J. Bennett | Assistant Professor | +353 1 896 3878 | gareth.bennett@tcd.ie |
| Dr. John Kennedy | Adjunct Professor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow | +353 1 896 2396 | kennedj@tcd.ie |
| Dr. Petr Eret | Adjunct Professor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow | +353 1 896 2396 | petr.eret@tcd.ie |
| Dr. John Mahon | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | +353 1 896 1998 | mahonjp@tcd.ie |
| Mr. Alberto Pellegrino | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 1998 | pellega@tcd.ie |
| Mr. Ian Davis | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 1998 | davisi@tcd.ie |
| Mr. Miguel Garcia-Pedroche | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 1998 | garciapm@tcd.ie |
| Mr. Donal Holland | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 3767 | holland@tcd.ie |
| Ms. Eimear Connolly | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 3767 | eiconnol@tcd.ie |
| Mr. Daniel Keogh | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 1998 | keoghd5@tcd.ie |
| Mr. Kevin Tarrant | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 1998 | tarrank@tcd.ie |
| Mr. Kun Zhao | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 1998 | kzhao@tcd.ie |
Alumni
| Name | Position | Tel. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Eoin King | Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut |
+1 860 768 5953 | eoking@hartford.edu |
Equipment and Facilities
Major Equipment
- 1 two-component Dantec laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) system
- 1 low-speed particle image velocimetry (PIV) system based on a New Wave Solo-II PIV double pulsed Nd:YAG laser and PCO Sensicam CCD camera
- 1 high-speed stereoscopic (3-component) particle image velocimetry (PIV) system, based on a Quantronix DarwinDuo high repetition rate double-pulsed Nd:YLF laser and 2 Photron Fastcam SA1 CMOS high-speed cameras (shared with FHT research group)
- 1 high-speed PIV system, based on an Oxford Lasers high repetition rate single cavity pulsed diode laser and NAC high-speed cameras (shared with FHT research group)
- 4 channel constant temperature hot-wire anemometry system
- Hermetically sealed pressure transducers
- A 30 microphone focusing array and associated data acquistion system
- Class 0 condenser microphones
- Various instrumentation for vibration monitoring, including acclerometers, force transducers, non-contact displacment transducers and component laser vibrometers
- Modular, multichannel, synchronous data acquistion systems (NI PCI, SCSI and PXI based)
Research Seminar Schedule
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