Prof Vassili Toropov
PhD, CEng, FRAeS, AFAIAA

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BHUWAL, Akash

BONTOFT, Elliott

Current PhD Projects

Thesis Title
Computational study of air disinfection using open and closed UVC system for indoors 1st Supervisor is Dr. Eldad Avital 2nd Supervisor changed to Prof Vassili Toropov Lead Progression Panellist changed to Prof Huasheng Wang Progression Panel Member 1 Dr Eldad Avital
Novel 3D Shapes for MDO of Fans and Compressors
Optimal Guidance and Control of Autonomous Electric Aircraft
Rich Simulation Driven Design Optimisation
Trust region guided derivative-free topology optimisation

Completed PhD Projects

Thesis Title	Year
The Effect of Loading and Environmental Conditions on the Mechanical Behaviours of Composite Materials.	2026
Optimal Control of Multiple Drones in a Multi-obstacle Environment	2025
Combined Design for Wave Energy Converter with Controller	2024
A structural optimization method preserving component sequence to account for specific manufacturing requirements	2023
Theoretical and computational modelling of airframe / propulsion interaction noise for reduced noise aircraft design	2023
MODELLING AND CONTROL OF MULTI-MODE MOTION OCEAN WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS	2021
Adjoint Based Optimisation for Coupled Conjugate Heat Transfer	2020
Hot Jet Noise Modelling	2020
AboutFlow CFD	2019
Multi-disciplinary multi-objective design optimisation of the shroudless rotor tip for the high pressure turbines	2019
A Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation Framework for Structural Problems with Disparate Variable Dependence	2017