Department staff
Dr Adrian Spencer MIMechE, CEng
Aeronautical Undergraduate Programme Director
Senior Lecturer in Thermo-fluid Dynamics
Tel +44 (0)1509 227 254
Fax +44 (0)1509 227 275
Email a.spencer@lboro.ac.uk
Background
- BEng(hons) Mechanical Engineering, Nottingham University.
- PhD, Combustor Aerodynamics, Loughborough University
- Rolls-Royce plc, Derby, UK. 1989-91
- Loughborough University, UK. 1991 –
- Secondment to CFDRC inc. Alabama, USA, 2002.
Current responsibilities
- Aeronautical Undergraduate Programme Director
- Member of the University Technology Centre in Combustion Aerodynamics
Teaching
- High Speed Aerodynamics
- Propulsion and Turbomachinery
- Gas Turbine Design
- Propulsion Design for the Environment
- Experimental Fluid Dynamics
Accomplishments
- EU Collaborative Research, LOCOPOTEC, MOLECULES, KIAI.
- Royal Academy of Engineering, Engineering Foresight Award, Industrial Secondment.
- PhD Student, David Hollis, Awarded the Osbourne Reynolds prize 2004 for the best researcher in turbulence and combustion, UK.
Research groups
- Applied Aerodynamics
- Optical Engineering
Research interests and activities
- Experimental Aerodynamics
- Combustor Aerodynamics
- Optical Measurement techniques, LDA, PIV
External activities
- Referee of Papers for International Journals
- Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Proceedings of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers
- Flow Turbulence and Combustion
- Invited Lectures
- US DOE/Air Force funded consortium to develop LES for combustors
- Institute for Technical Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry, University of Karlsruhe
- Fachgebiet Energie- und Kraftwerkstechnik, Technische Universität Darmstadt