Aerospace Engineering
MEng (HK00), BEng (H401), MEng (H400), BEng (H421)

Computational Simulation of Bird Impact on a Typical Aircraft Wing section (supported by AirBus)

(a) Computational Simulation of the Supersonic Jet Engine Plume (b) Experimantal Investigation on the Design of Micro-thruster for space vehicle altitude and orbit control

Research Projects

In the third year students undertake an individual research project. This provides an opportunity for students to get involved with the exciting Aerospace Engineering research taking place in the School. The project is an opportunity for students to apply the skills and techniques learnt from previous years’ studies and to focus on an area that particularly interests them. Students work on their own but get support, guidance and advice from their project supervisor, other members of staff and researchers. We aim to produce projects that are of sufficient quality to be presented at international conferences or published in peer-review journals.

Examples of recent individual research projects in Aerospace Engineering include:
- Orbit Design for Asteroid Rendezvous Missions
- Formation of satellites for radio interferometry in lunar orbit
- Design of electrolysis rocket propulsion systems
- Induced drag reduction using a novel wing tip device
- Electric Propulsion Techniques for CubeSat Lunar Mission
- Reduction of drag and noise in aircraft landing gear
- Analysis of supersonic jet noise using jet vectoring
- Shock-induced boundary layers at transonic speeds
- Aerodynamics of transonic jet engine turbine blades
- Computational prediction of the impact of birds on wing sections