Fluids, Acoustics & Vibration
The Fluids, Acoustics & Vibration group conducts research on modelling and analysis of flow/structure interactions, vibro-acoustic and aeroacoustic 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 - Associate Professor
Dr. John Kennedy - Assistant Professor
21st CEAS-ASC Workshop
Aeroacoustics Research in Europe – 2022 Highlights
One of the yearly activities of the Aeroacoustics Specialists Committee of the Confederation of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS-ASC) is to summarise significant R&D activities in Aeroacoustics in Europe in a report which is usually published as an article in the Journal of Sound and Vibration (JSV). As members of the ASC, Profs Christophe Schram and Gareth J. Bennett will be the editors of the highlights for 2022. If you would like to submit a contribution to be considered for publication as a highlight, please do so here...
Submit a contribution for consideration for Aeroacoustics Research in Europe – 2022 Highlights.
Selected Research Projects
Current
X-Noise EV. EU Network in Aeroacoustics (FP7)
Fluid-induced vibration in heat exchanger tube bundles
Flow-induced acoustic resonance in bluff body flows
Completed
An Investigation of how the turbulent length and time scales are affected by nozzles with mixing enhancement features
Coherent structure analysis in jet flows
Coupling between fluid flow-induced vibration and noise in tube arrays
Investigation of fluid forces responsible for fluid elastic instability in tube arrays
TEENI (FP7)
NACRE (I) (FP6)
NACRE (II) (FP6)
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 | Associate Professor | +353 1 896 3878 | gareth.bennett@tcd.ie |
| Dr. John Kennedy | Assistant Professor | +353 1 896 2396 | kennedj@tcd.ie |
| Dr. Andrew Mc Kay | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | +353 1 896 1998 | mckayan@tcd.ie |
| Dr. Matthew Cassidy | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | +353 1 896 1998 | Matthew.Cassidy@tcd.ie |
| Dr. David Heaphy | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | +353 1 896 1998 | HEAPHYD@tcd.ie |
| Mr. Eoghan Ross | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 1998 | eoross@tcd.ie |
| Mr. Kelvin Figueroa-Ibrahim | Postgraduate Research Student (Visiting from University of Notre Dame, USA) | +353 1 896 1998 | kfiguero@nd.edu |
| Mr. Md Robiul Hossain | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 1998 | mhossain@tcd.ie |
| Ms. Lara Flanagan | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 1998 | FLANAGL1@tcd.ie |
| Ms. Agnieszka Ciochon | Postgraduate Research Student | +353 1 896 1998 | aciochon@tcd.ie |
| Mr. Daragh O'Connor | Research Assistant | +353 1 896 1998 | oconnd29@tcd.ie |
Alumni
| Name | Position | Tel. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Miguel Garcia-Pedroche | Sound and Vibration Engineer, Dyson Ltd., UK | ||
| Dr. Ian Davis | Acoustician, Bell Labs, Ireland | ||
| Dr. Eoin King | Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, USA |
+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 acquisition system
- Class 0 condenser microphones
- Various instrumentation for vibration monitoring, including accelerometers, force transducers, non-contact displacement transducers and component laser vibrometers
- Modular, multichannel, synchronous data acquisition systems (NI PCI, SCSI and PXI based)