Department of Aeronautics
Welcome to the UK's leading Aeronautical Engineering Department
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Our Space Engineering Lab opened in 2018, and supports research into deployable structures and experimentally investigates plasma thrusters (Electric Propulsion) for spacecraft propulsion applications.
Find out more about our Hydrodynamics Flume. Capable of producing flow velocities of up to 1 m/s, the facility makes extremely high temporal resolution experiments possible.
Our state-of-the-art visualisation wall provides a 12.4 million pixel 3.8 metre display surface, powered by dual P5000 NVIDIA GPUs, to allow our researchers to explore large computational and experimental datasets.
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Our research
Fluid mechanics
Research in this area includes turbulence, flow control and biological fluid mechanics. Find out more about fluid mechanics.
Aerospace materials and structures
Research in this area includes composites and materials modelling, multifunctional materials, smart and micro air vehicles. Find out more about aerospace materials and structures.
Computational methods and mathematical modelling
Research in this area includes computational fluid dynamcs, computational structural mechanics, and optimisation and control. Find out more about computational methods and mathematical modelling.
Study Aeronautics
Undergraduate
The best possible training to enable the development of analytical skills with the latest computational methods. Find out more about undergraduate courses.
Taught postgraduate
First class facilities and supervision with academic excellence. Find out more about postgraduate study.
PhD
Opportunities which cover the full range of aerospace-related fields and those relevant to the environment, energy and health care. Find out more about PhDs in the Department.