Dr Eldad Avital
PhD, SMAIAA, SFHEA, FRAeS, CEng
News
June 2025 | ||
 Shuo Mi passes PhD Viva with excellent research in offshore aquaculture10 June 2025Shuo Mi has successfully passed his PhD viva, marking a significant milestone in his academic journey and a major contribution to the field of offshore aquaculture. His research has focused on developing high-fidelity fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations to improve the design, safety, and sustainability of open sea fish farming systems. … [more] | ||
April 2025 | ||
 MEng student paper accepted to the aero-mechanical IEEE-ICMAE conference in Rome23 April 2025The paper titled 'Analysis of a Low Reynolds Number Rotor Acting as a Thruster and an Energy Harvester in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Conditions' has been accepted for presentation at the 16th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE 2025), to be held in Rome, Italy this July and will be … [more] | ||
 Dr Mouna Chetehouna promotes QMUL’s inclusive and equitable education culture at AdvanceHe EDI Conference 202516 April 2025At the AdvanceHE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2025, held on the 2nd of April, Dr Mouna Chetehouna from CRÈME represented Queen Mary University of London, promoting the institution’s inclusive and equitable education culture on a national stage. Her presentation highlighted a unique educational approach developed within the School … [more] | ||
March 2025 | ||
 Postgraduate students present research at Industrial Liaison Forum11 March 2025On 5 March 2025, our MEng and MSc students presented their research projects at the Industrial Liaison Forum, engaging with industry professionals, external visitors and academics. MEng Projects All fourth-year MEng students undertake team projects, working in groups of four to six. With their projects nearing completion, they showcased a mix of … [more] | ||
January 2025 | ||
 Undergraduate Engineering students present at AIAA SciTech Conference in Orlando, Florida27 January 2025A group of 3rd and 4th year aerospace and mechanical engineering undergraduate students presented their project in person at the AIAA SciTech Conference in Orlando this January. Their participation followed their first-place win at the AIAA Regional Student Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, last November. The visit was jointly supported … [more] | ||
November 2024 | ||
 Undergraduate team wins first prize at AIAA Student Conference in Melbourne27 November 2024A team of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering third and fourth-year students has won first prize in the team presentation category at the prestigious American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Student Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, on 25th and 26th November, competing against 13 other international entries. The team investigated the … [more] | ||
 Invited talk on "Room Fluid Dynamics, Airborne Disease Transmission, Risk and Mitigation" in CBRI IIT Roorkee India25 November 2024The invited talk will highlight our research achievements in the fields of indoor fluid dynamics and air purification, aimed at mitigating the spread of airborne diseases. This work builds on the close collaboration between our research group and Indian academic and industrial partners, including IITR, IITM, VIT, and the SME … [more] | ||
 Our first phase of guest lectures for the senior undergraduate aerospace students22 November 2024This week, we were pleased to welcome Dr Cohen from Airbus, who delivered a guest lecture to third-year aerospace students enrolled in the Aerospace Design module. Dr Cohen also met with two MEng groups working on innovative projects: one developing terrestrial small wind turbine systems as part of a British … [more] | ||
October 2024 | ||
 Student research paper accepted to AIAA Student Conference27 October 2024A group of undergraduate students, including fourth year (MEng) aerospace and mechanical engineering students Milcha Masresha , Andrews Agyei , Raima Rahman, Omar Abdi, Aamna Abbasi and Imad Foughali, and third year aerospace student Hardit Saini, have successfully had their research paper on wind turbines accepted to the American Institute of Aeronautics … [more] | ||
September 2024 | ||
 Innovative blade aerodynamic design pursued by master and undergraduate students is presented in the 14th meeting of the Wind Engineering Society5 September 2024An innovative blade aerodynamic design aiming to maximise the power produced by a small horizontal axis wind turbine was carried by a group of master and undergraduate students, and was presented in the international meeting of the UK wind engineering society (WES 2024) in Southampton this week. The research and design … [more] | ||
June 2024 | ||
 Hyperlink wins at Hyperloop Global Competition30 June 2024Hyperlink, Queen Mary University of London's Hyperloop team, was recognised with the 'Braking System Award' at the 2024 Hyperloop Global Competition. Hyperlink competed in the annual event, hosted by Toronto Metropolitan University, alongside a range of local and international teams. They were the only UK team present at this year'… [more] | ||
May 2024 | ||
 Congratulation to Dr Yang Chen31 May 2024Dr Yang Chen has successfully completed her PhD project on Fluidic and Fluid-Structure Interaction Control for Wind Turbine Blades. She computationally researched morphing blade sections and leading edge fluid injection to improve the aerodynamic performance of small wind turbines. Further information on the leading edge fluid injection is given on … [more] | ||
April 2024 | ||
 British Council support joint wind energy research project with VIT Chennai3 April 2024The British Council supports a joint masters educational-research project between Queen Mary and Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in Chennai. The masters will research distributed wind energy for urban and rural requirements, integration and energy conversion. The project consortium also consists of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras India and … [more] | ||
February 2024 | ||
 Special issue in Biological Fluid Dynamics in the journal Fluids is re-opened for submission25 February 2024Following the success of last year special issue, where 7 high quality papers have been published in our special issue of Biological Fluid Dynamics in the journal Fluids. We have decided to re-open it for new submissions following consultation with the publisher, see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/fluids/special_issues/… [more] | ||
 School of Engineering and Materials Science celebrates league table success8 February 2024The School of Engineering and Materials Science is celebrating a number of achievements in university league tables for 2024, across a range of subjects. Key successes include ranking as: 4th in the UK for Materials Technology (Complete University Guide 2024). 1st in the UK for graduate prospects in Materials Technology (Complete University … [more] | ||
January 2024 | ||
 The Scotsman newspaper publishes cautiously optimistic view by Dr Avital and the Hyperlink student team, in its article on Hyperloop technology10 January 2024Following the closure of the startup Hyperloop One in December 2023, The Scotsman newspaper looked at the future possibility of using Hyperloop technology to connect Edinburgh with London. While the University of Edinburgh’s team expressed optimism, other UK academics expressed pessimism, pointing to the high cost of the technology. … [more] | ||
July 2023 | ||
 Student team makes an impact at European Hyperloop Week31 July 2023A group of students from the Hyperlink London society, most of whom study Engineering and Materials Science programmes at Queen Mary, recently showcased their work at European Hyperloop Week. European Hyperloop Week is a yearly international event dedicated to the Hyperloop - a futuristic transportation concept which combines elements of … [more] | ||
June 2023 | ||
 Expert reaction to the collapse of the Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam, reported in the Science Media Centre14 June 2023Following the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, SEMS' Dr Eldad Avital was asked for his reaction by the Science Media Centre as an expert to the possible reasons of the dam’s collapse and the environmental effects of such collapse: “That dam was already damaged due to previous … [more] | ||
April 2023 | ||
 Dr Avital has joined the AIAA Terrestrial Energy Systems Technical Committee25 April 2023Dr Avital has joined the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Terrestrial Energy Systems Technical Committee from May 2023. The committee deals with the application of engineering sciences and system engineering to the production, storage, distribution, and conservation of energy for terrestrial uses. This is a recognition of the excellent … [more] | ||
March 2023 | ||
 Full programme accreditation received from the Royal Aeronautical Society31 March 2023The School is delighted to have received full accreditation for our undergraduate and postgraduate taught Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering programmes from the Royal Aeronautical Society until 2027 The School was particularly noted for its good practice in adapting to the impact of Covid-19, its strong drive to prepare its students for … [more] | ||
 Engineering solutions to mitigate airborne disease transmission in mid and low income countries31 March 2023In international collaboration, a group of master and PhD students, and academics from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in the UK, IIT Madras and VIT Chennai in India has published an innovative concept of air purifier design in the journal Fluids https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5521/8/4/111 The Covid pandemic … [more] | ||
 Hyperlink team wins Bright Network award9 March 2023The Hyperlink student team wins the Innovation Award by Bright Network for their innovative solutions of developing a hyperloop transport technology. The student team is based at the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London and has student members from other schools as the School … [more] | ||
December 2022 | ||
 New "Aeroacoustics of Dynamic Stall" project funded by EPSRC20 December 2022The team of Queen Mary engineers together with colleagues from the University of Bristol and the University of Cambridge has been awarded a significant EPSRC funding to work on dynamic stall noise, using a combination of experimental, computational, and mathematical modelling techniques. Aerodynamic noise from transport vehicles and wind turbines … [more] | ||
 Keynote talk on "Fluid dynamics innovations in hydrogen fusion and wind energy technologies" in FMFP2022 IIT Roorkee Dec 15th, https://www.iitr.ac.in/FMFP2022/ given by Dr Avital13 December 2022In this talk we will cover innovations carried by our group and in collaboration with others in the fields of hydrogen fusion and wind energy. Hydrogen fusion energy is very promising in terms of impact, but we still do not have commercial reactors. However, recent developments as the magnetised target … [more] | ||
September 2022 | ||
Special issue in Biological Fluid Dynamics in the journal Fluids is open for submission11 September 2022A new special issue in biological fluid dynamics has been announced in the journal Fluids, see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/fluids/special_issues/L22Y9LH960 For this Special Issue, we call for a wide range of papers, including those covering analytical, computational, and experimental studies of biofluids as … [more] | ||
June 2022 | ||
 Queen Mary's Hyperlink group wins the Low Power Award for the Electronic System and awarded second place for Propulsion System in an international student competition hosted by the University of Waterloo, Canada9 June 2022Hyperlink is a London student group that is mostly based at the School of Engineering and Materials of Science, QMUL (https://www.hyperlinklondon.com/). The QMUL students - Katarzyna Lichy, Marcin Bielicki, Michal Makowka and Matthew Clisby attended the Canadian Hyperloop Competition that took place in Waterloo, Ontario 27-29 May 2022 , … [more] | ||
March 2022 | ||
 SEMS students working on Hyperloop project progress to the next stage of the 2022 European Hyperloop Week24 March 2022Hyperlink is a Queen Mary based student team developing a fully operational Hyperloop Pod prototype and researching the business, social and safety aspects of making the novel transportation system a reality. For the past two seasons, Hyperlink has been competing in the European Hyperloop Week conference. In January, the team … [more] | ||
December 2021 | ||
 The European Physical Journal E (EPJE) has chosen its cover figure of the December 2021 issue from our study on self-propelling Janus particles.17 December 2021The paper presents an analytical study of self-propelling Janus particles to predict the temperature and velocity fields. The particles are powered by light irradiation of a defocused laser beam. Practical analytical approximations are given with good agreement with experiments. EJ Avital, T Miloh (2021) Self-thermophoresis of laser-heated spherical Janus particles, … [more] | ||
August 2021 | ||
 Queen Mary part of international research collaboration to prevent spread of Covid-19 and TB in India12 August 2021The 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 viva19 July 2021The 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 restrictions15 July 2021On 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 2021We 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 2021A 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, Cambridge27 April 2021The 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] | ||