Professor Christian Allen

Research summary

Prof. Allen is leader of the Bristol aerodynamics research group. His research field is the development of computational methods for the solution of the governing fluid flow equations, and the generation of computational meshes, for unsteady aerodynamics. Specific research areas include steady and unsteady flow about wings and rotor blades, mesh generation and deformation techniques, aerodynamic optimisation, aerodynamic-structural coupling, high-speed combustion modelling, and unsteady vortex methods.

Recent efforts have concentrated on `empowering' technology; generic universal pre-, co-, and post-processing methods that make CFD methods easier to use, and methods to extract maximum information from CFD output. Example include approaches to ...

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Biography

Professor Allen obtained a BSc from the Department before moving to Rolls-Royce military engines in Filton, Bristol. After a brief period there, he left to obtain an MSc in fluid dynamics from the Department of Mathematics at Bristol, before returning to the Department to undertake a PhD in computational fluid dynamics. He was awarded a PhD in 1993, and subsequently worked in the Department as a Research Fellow until August 1999, when he was appointed Lecturer in Aerodynamics. In 2003 he was promoted to Reader in Computational Aerodynamics. Later in 2003 he was awarded a five-year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship ...

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Recent publications

• Rendall, T & Allen, CB 2013, ‘Evaluation of RBFs for volume data interpolation in CFD’. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids.
• Mackman, TJ, Allen, CB, Ghoreshi, M & Badcock, K 2013, ‘Comparison of Adaptive Sampling Methods for Generation of Surrogate Aerodynamic Models’. AIAA Journal, vol 51., pp. 797-808

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