Department staff
Background
BA MAthematics - 1984
Ph.D (School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University) - ‘Three
Dimensional Elliptic Computations for Viscous Turbomachinery Flows’ - 1987
Rolls-Royce - Theoretical Science Group - 1987
Rolls-Royce Engineering Associate Fellow - CFD - 2004
Current Responsibilities
Royal Society Industry Fellow (1 Jul 2008 - 30 June 2012)
Leader of team developing the Rolls-Royce HYDRA CFD code
Accomplishments
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications - 2002
Research Group
Applied Aerodynamics
Research interests and activities
Development and application of code coupling techniques for high fidelity CFD
codes applied to gas turbine applications - e.g. compressor/combustor/turbine
coupling.
External Activities
Member of EPSRC CSE Performance Working Group
(http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/about/progs/rii/hpc/management/Pages/csegroup.aspx)
Member of EPSRC Peer Review College
Scientific Committee member of Chinese ISJPPE (International Symposium on Jet
Propulsion and Power Engineering)
Publications
B.L.Lapworth, 2004:
‘HYDRA-CFD: A Framework for Collaborative CFD Development’, International
Conference on Scientific and Engineering Computation IC-SEC 2004, 30 June -
02 July 2004, Singapore.
B.L.Lapworth, 2004:
‘Simulation, Design and Visualisation of Gas Turbine Engines’, Invited
Lecture - International Conference on Scientific and Engineering Computation
IC-SEC 2004, 30 June - 02 July 2004, Singapore.
B.L.Lapworth, 2004:
‘Design of Gas Turbine Engines Using CFD’, European Congress on Computational
Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS 2004, July 24-28, 2004,
Jyväskylä, Finland.
B.L.Lapworth, S.Shahpar, D.C.Radford, M.B.Giles, 2005:
‘Simulation and Design of Gas Turbine Components’, Invited Lecture – 2nd
European Workshop on Automatic Differentiation, November 17-18, 2005,
Cranfield University, Shrivenham, UK.
D. Kožulović and B.L.Lapworth, 2007:
‘An Approach For Inclusion Of A Non-Local Transition Model In A Parallel
Unstructured CFD Code’, 5th Joint ASME/JSME Fluids Engineering Conference,
July 30-August 2, 2007, San Diego, California, USA.
B.L.Lapworth, 2007:
‘Advanced Compressor Design Incorporating Real Geometry Features’,
ISABE-2007-1306, XVIII International Symposium on Air Breathing Engines
(ISABE), Beijing, China, September 2007.
B.L.Lapworth, 2008:
‘Advanced Simulation and Design of Gas Turbines’, 2nd International Symposium
on Jet Propulsion and Power Engineering’, Guilin, China, 22-26 September 2008
B.L.Lapworth, 2008:
‘The Challenges for Aero-Engine CFD’, Invited Lecture, ICFD 25th Anniversary Meeting, Oxford, UK, 15-16 September, 2008.