Dr Eldad Avital
PhD, SMAIAA, FHEA, CEng, FRAeS

Research Group News

August 2021

Queen Mary part of international research collaboration to prevent spread of Covid-19 and TB in India 12 August 2021 The project, involving researchers from Queen Mary, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai and pioneering Delhi-based startup, Magneto Cleantech, will create revolutionary, air filtration technologies that use Ultraviolet C (UVC), a type of radiation known to be very effective at ‘killing’, or … [more]

July 2021

Congratulations to Mingyang Wang for passing his PhD viva 19 July 2021 The PhD student Mingyang Wang successfully defended his PhD project title “Hydrodynamics and Suspended Sediment Transport in Partially vegetated Channel Flows” subject to style corrections on July 19th. Mingyang has already published three journal papers in the Journal of Hydrology, Advances in Water Resources and Computational Particle mechanics … [more]

Cranfield flight course successfully carried out this year adapting to Covid restrictions 15 July 2021 On June 22nd a group of aerospace students travelled to the national flight lab centre at Cranfield to successfully experience flights demonstrating flight dynamics principles they have studied this year, while seeing and analysing real-time flight data. Due to the Covid situation the group was limited to 18 students and MEng … [more]

June 2021

"Mitigating and harnessing sound for renewables and power generation", a talk will be given on Dr Avital group's research in this field as part of the UK Acoustics Network seminar programme. 7 June 2021 We will look at several cases studies spanning from high to low intensity sound applications for energy engineering and sound-structure interaction. The first case is the high speed jet noise, where focus will be given to crackle noise which appears in supersonic jets but difficult to capture using power spectrum … [more]

Special Issue "Fluid Dynamics of Renewable Energy" 1 June 2021 A special issue in the Journal Fluids has been commissioned on Fluid Dynamics of Renewable Energy and is edited by Dr Avital and Prof Ji. Accepted papers will be offered 50% discount. Further details are on https://www.mdpi.com/journal/fluids/special_issues/Fluid_Renewable_Energy [more]

April 2021

MEng group presenting a poster in an international research workshop, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge 27 April 2021 The MEng group working on “Novel air filter to suppress viral load in confined space” along with fellow students from IIT Madras and VIT Chennai India presented a poster in the workshop “Environment and aerosol transmission of COVID-19”  that took place in the Isaac Newton … [more]