Our people
Led by Centre Director Professor Jon Carrotte, NCCAT has an experienced research team composed of academic staff, research associates and doctoral researchers and this is supported by an experienced and widely skilled technical team.
Academics
Prof Walker’s research targets a reduction in the environmental impact of aviation. He focusses on the aerothermal study of gas turbines combustion systems and the interfacing components.
Dr Xia’s research focuses on modelling and high-fidelity simulation of flow-induced instability, noise and heat transfer phenomena found in engineering problems, e.g. gas turbine combustors.
Management
Researchers
Dr Leiva's work is focused on the experimental and CFD study of gas turbine combustion system aerodynamics, as well as the design and development of experimental rigs to support said research.
Dr Wetherell is working on the design and simulation of future hydrogen powered combustion systems for civil aerospace. He is also working on atomisation and sprays modelling capability.