Project outline As electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft move closer to widespread adoption in future cities, the design of vertiports which are dedicated take-off and landing hubs, has become increasingly important in ensuring safe, efficient, and publicly acceptable urban air mobility systems. Noise is one of the key challenges facing this transition. The […]
Project outline This PhD project takes on one of the most fascinating challenges in modern aerospace engineering: understanding how turbulent airflows create noise and vibration when they interact with aircraft surfaces. These turbulent pressure fluctuations are key to designing the next generation aircraft, ship and other transport systems. Project Partners Working with leading researchers at […]
Project outline The noise generated by complex aircraft components, such as landing gear systems, presents a significant scientific and engineering challenge. Reducing this noise is crucial as aircraft manufacturers strive to meet stringent environmental regulations and minimise the acoustic footprint of modern aircraft. Accurately predicting noise from such complex geometries depends on a detailed understanding […]
Project outline Aircraft noise remains a major environmental and public health concern, with landing gear systems representing a significant contributor to the overall noise signature during approach and landing. Understanding the complex mechanisms behind landing gear noise generation requires detailed knowledge of the turbulent flow development around these intricate geometries. The project will combine experimental […]
Project outline As urban air mobility continues to develop, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs), drones, and air taxis are expected to transform the way people and goods move within and between cities. These emerging technologies promise cleaner, more efficient transport, but their success depends on achieving low noise levels that make them acceptable […]
Project outline This research addresses a critical gap in the evaluation of environmental and technical sounds by developing and validating psychoacoustic models for sharpness and impulsiveness within the Sottek Hearing Model (SHM) framework, then optimising these models for real-world complex soundscapes rather than idealised laboratory conditions. Current sound evaluation methods rely heavily on basic frequency-weighted […]
Project outline The rollout of low-carbon technologies is introducing unfamiliar sounds into everyday environments: These technologies bring clear financial and environmental benefits, yet their acoustic footprints are often quite different from the noise sources they replace. Tonal, fluctuating, high-pitched, and sometimes persistent in character – such sounds can alter how people perceive the quality and […]
Project outline Large numerical simulations dominate marine and aerospace industries when performing structural analysis on engineering platforms. These models are computationally intensive, and model updating often requires complete re-simulation. To enable practical real-time sensing applications for noise and vibration, sufficient sensor coverage is needed to acquire the data which characterises the dynamical behaviour for quantifying […]
Project outline Numerical methods for acoustic simulations are well established, but scale poorly to high frequencies and large domains. Important applications include simulation of outdoor noise propagation and room acoustics. Physics-informed machine learning is a new and rapidly developing field that has shown promising early results in other physical sciences, and offers significant potential for […]
Project outline Air source heat pumps (ASHPs) offer a significant opportunity to decarbonise home heating. However, the increasing rate of installations at homes across the UK and Europe may lead to a rise in community noise, impacting public health and wellbeing, and potentially hindering the adoption of heat pumps. Current standards for assessing noise from […]