Associate Professor Con Doolan from the University of New South Wales is a leading expert on aeroacoustics and flow induced noise. Flow generated noise is important in a wide variety of applications including wind turbines, aircraft, rockets and, more recently and importantly, hypersonic vehicles. Our ability to design light-weight, reusable hypersonic vehicles is constrained by the extreme levels of acoustic loading.  This talk will discuss the production mechanisms of acoustic waves in high-speed flows, from supersonic military jet exhausts, to scramjet engines. He will show some recent theoretical results illustrating the strength of acoustic sources in high-Mach number flows with harmonic heat addition and outline a plan to investigate them in scramjet engines.

 

An associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at New South WalesUniversity of Australia. He was granted PhD at University of Queensland, Australia in 1997. He is now leading Flow and Noise Research Group specializing in experimentaland numerical investigations of flow induced noise/aeroacoustics from jets, aircraft, submarines and wind turbines. He is a senior member of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and has published more than 150 papers.