Prof Ben Evans
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Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Swansea University and Aero Engineer on the Bloodhound Land Speed Record project...
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Version 1 of our Augmented Reality,
#CFD
in a smartphone, app
#AeroDoodle3D
is now available on the
@Apple
app store... give it a whirl and let us know what you think...
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Today this happened (new Twitter name) rarely, in academia, does success happen purely at an individual level (& certainly not in my case),so may I take this opportunity to thank all the students, colleagues, collaborators and supporters who have facilitated my journey to Prof🙌
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Studying the wheel loading on our final (a628 mph) run of
@Bloodhound_LSR
- the drop off in rear axle downforce of ~2kN as we passed through 500 mph is almost spot on what we predicted
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Lovely to see the upper chassis getting fitted back onto
@Bloodhound_LSR
ahead of more trials tomorrow/Thurs
#2019HST
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Bloodhound takes first drive across the desert:
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We’re back! In the lecture theatre... 🙌 and learning about aerodynamics... what a joy!
#EGM90
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Delighted to have received this award last night for my work over the past decade on the
#Bloodhound
project 🥇- we really must not give up now
#SupportBloodhound
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It's that time of year again when I pore over dozens and dozens student reports in which they try to wow me with the ability to do
#CFD
flow vis and then convince me then understand what they are seeing... it is educational (for me) and entertaining
#F15
#EGM90
#AdvancedAero
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Get stuck in a dull Zoom meeting this week? No fear, have a play with our free, online, interactive
#CFD
aero modelling tool 'AeroDoodle' @
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So this little man arrived in my world over the weekend... I’ll be going under the radar for a couple of weeks... see you on the other side...
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I am thrilled that, as we await investment (and the right timing) for a record attempt, now the general public can go and see the famous red and white
@Bloodhound_LSR
at the amazing
@CovTM
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Of all the things that I’m most proud of about
@Bloodhound_LSR
the way in which it is inspiring the local school kids is definitely up there
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Was hanging out with the locals for the first rolling run of
@Bloodhound_LSR
- we were loving it! Has definitely captured the hearts of the
#HakskeenPan
local population :-)
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This afternoon is all about
@Bloodhound_LSR
underside pressure data analysis - measurements vs
#CFD
predictions
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Final day of paternity leave. This little lad is two weeks old today! Has been an absolute joy to carve out precious time out to hang out with him. Mixed emotions about heading back to work tomorrow...
#WorkLifeBalance
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Making some great progress on our handheld virtual wind tunnel project this week... our augmented reality enhanced CFD on a smartphone is really coming to life!
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Here’s the evidence everyone! The flow around
@Bloodhound_LSR
went sonic this morning at 610 mph (Mach 0.79) at a point on the side of the car just above the rear delta.
#transonic
#criticalMach
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Just been out into the track to test the surface with Ron Ayers and Andy Green. The surface quality will affect the way shock waves interact with it - critical for us getting the
#CFD
modelling right!
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It was worth the 3.30am alarm for the experience of
#HakskeenPan
at sunrise. We’re all set for the earliest run of
@Bloodhound_LSR
so far.
#2019HST
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Just received another few letters to add after my name: CEng
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Looking at first
#CFD
simulation results of
@BLOODHOUND_SSC
full car with airbrakes deployed @ Mach0.8 (600 mph)
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It's coming! The official
@Channel4
documentary on the
@Bloodhound_LSR
story so far... 6pm (UK) Saturday 14th Nov... please spread the word as we need to use this as the platform to raise funds for the final push into the record books
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@BBCAmos
@Bloodhound_LSR
And pretty much exactly as we predicted it would! Has been astonishing to see how well the
@SUEngineering
#CFD
has tracked the actual behaviour of
@Bloodhound_LSR
during
#2019HST
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Fantastic
@Bloodhound_LSR
documentary now available on
@BBCiPlayer
- shout out to the critical work done by
@adrian_luckman
who helped us find
#HakskeenPan
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The local fans enjoyed witnessing the modest 100 mph shakedown run and are now excited for more!
#HakskeenPan
#2019HST
@Bloodhound_LSR
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Real time, augmented reality
#CFD
aero simulations of flow over a
@CompFoundry
mug - we finally got it working!
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We have a number of Ukrainian students studying with us here in the
#Aerospace
Department
@SUEngineering
- I can only imagine what this morning must feel like for you all. We stand with you and will do whatever we can to support you in these dreadful times. 🇺🇦
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We're looking for an ambitious PhD student to come and join our group to work on
#CFD
based optimisation methods for the design of high speed engine intakes. It will be done in collaboration with
@ReactionEngines
and to find out more:
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Back after a fortnight in the sunshine and into my first week in my new role as Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering
@SUEngineering
- here we go!
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Lecture prep day… tomorrow in
#EGM90
Advanced Aero we will add the viscous terms into the Euler equations and then non-dimensionalise to see why Reynolds number is so important!
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Very proud of how swiftly
@SwanseaUni
has moved and adapted to this crisis... both students and staff have done an epic job so far... stay safe everyone
"There are many changes ahead and I just want to make you feel reassured that we are thinking about you all of the time."
A message from the vice-chancellor to
#SwanseaUni
students.
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And this is where the
@BLOODHOUND_SSC
test programme will commence this October
#Newquay2017
#BLOODHOUNDisGO
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Doesn’t matter how much compute power you throw at a problem, sometimes there’s no substitute for pen, paper and F=ma
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And
@BLOODHOUND_SSC
is back, with new livery, and (critically) new financing... all set for high speed testing, potentially later this year
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Anyone else discovering that lecturing online is a biz-zillion times more draining than doing it in person?? All the energy output but limited adrenaline rush or real time positive feedback vibes in return...
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My new office! From which I have a panoramic view from which to keep tabs on the surf conditions at
#BayCampus
@SwanseaUni
🏄♂️
#LoveWhereYouLive
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Getting lots of incredible data off
@Bloodhound_LSR
during
#2019HST
, the job now is to calibrate it and validate it...
#engineering
#NotTrivial
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Big thank you to everyone who turned up to my Inaugural yesterday - blown away and humbled by the number that showed up (and watched online). The recording is now available here:
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Lecture preparations… if all goes to plan in tomorrow’s
#EGM90
Advanced Aerodynamics lecture we will derive the Euler equations from scratch… and hopefully have some fun along the way…
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Pulling together a lecture that I'll be giving on
@Bloodhound_LSR
this Wednesday - it's starting to feel like a therapy session...
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Really encouraging data off
@Bloodhound_LSR
up to Mach 0.6 when comparing wheel loads to predicted
#CFD
aero downforce
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Check out this cool new
@MATLAB
app, developed by one of my PGR team, for generating and plotting 2D aerofoil geometries:
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Came across this cool view of the EJ200 exhaust plume taken from above
@BLOODHOUND_SSC
at
#Newquay2017
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Made it to
#Newquay2017
- the car is looking magnificent. All the feedback from the engineers is positive so excited to get her fired up!
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It’s arrived! Thank you
@BantshireUni
just for one more little thing that brightens up my day 👍
#CampwsYBae
#SocanPotsh
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I’m back! And I’m in a proper, real, physical lecture theatre with proper, real, physical (socially distanced) students... and it feels great!
#EGM90
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There can’t be many universities in the world where 2mins after a meeting with students you’re sat eating lunch somewhere like this!
#BayCampus
@SUEngineering
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And here it begins... giving myself 3 months to turn all the blah, blah, blahs and empty figures into a publishable paper...
#AcademicLife
#2019HST
#BloodhoundLSR
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Dr Ian Mabbett and I are on a mission today at
@THORPEPARK
to convince kids that coming to hear us talk about
#Engineering
is more fun than riding rollercoasters 🎢 wish us luck!!
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Great to see the beautiful
@SwanseaUni
#BayCampus
springing back into life this evening... ☀️ vibes
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Last day in the office at
@SUEngineering
compiling a portfolio of
#CFD
renders that we can use out at
#HakskeenPan
to compare
@Bloodhound_LSR
aero performance to the computer models
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Start of course class selfie looks a little different this year... here we go with another
#EGA302A
Aerospace Design course!
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8hrs ago I was sat here with the water lapping on the sand, now it’s 100s of metres away, what incredible forces must be at work, if only we could harness this for free energy.... oh, yes...
#SwanseaTidalLagoon
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Throwing some ideas around today in
@MATLAB
for a new project exploring novel numerical solution approaches for Partial Differential Equations
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Really looking forward to sharing some of the preliminary results from
#2019HST
of
@Bloodhound_LSR
with colleagues at
@UWTSD
today - big thanks to
@JTownsend_93
for the excellent data crunching!
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Looking at
#2019HST
measured base pressures vs
#CFD
predictions and projections to aid
@Nammo
in the
@Bloodhound_LSR
rocket development programme
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This is it folks, last chance to get your hands on the worlds fastest car before it becomes a museum exhibit... if you think you can help us get
@Bloodhound_LSR
across the line now’s the time to shout!
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Well
#BackToTheFuture
didn't get the flying cars prediction right but then it didn't predict a 1,000mph car either
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The survivors from the
#EGM90
class of 2024! These are students who kept turning up even when we got to hypersonic and rarefied gas flows 👏 👏 👏
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OK folks... I’m off to give myself the greatest Christmas present 2020 can offer: 2 weeks off Zoom and Teams... see you on the other side!
#HappyChristmas
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Sometimes I think I should have got a PhD in ‘Responding to Emails’ rather than in ‘Computational Fluid Dynamics’
#AcademicChatter
😬
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Look what I just received! New
@Bloodhound_LSR
posters summarising what we discovered during
#2019HST
- who wants one??
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Super excited to be relaunching our popular Bloodhound For Schools outreach project this morning. Here’s our team of amazing
@BLOODHOUND_Edu
ambassadors ready and raring to visit your school to share the
@Bloodhound_LSR
project and inspire…
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Beautiful views up to the snow capped foothills of the Brecon Beacons from
@swanseauni
#BayCampus
this morning
#LoveWhereYouLive
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Side view of the
@BLOODHOUND_SSC
cockpit - canopy angle is set to achieve the exact shock system required for intake
http://t.co/tTEGcnzbkr
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Back to
@Bloodhound_LSR
#2019HST
data analysis today... all of this will be featured in a forthcoming research paper
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Prepping data vis after interesting meeting discussing rocket plume performance with
@BLOODHOUND_SSC
and
@Nammo
this morning
#BloodhoundIsGo
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“The algorithm has failed” - starting to hate this phrase as much as “Brexit”... algorithms are written by human beings to do a job for them... the people behind the algorithm failed if anybody failed
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Very sad to hear of the passing of the legendary Ron Ayers. Was an honour and privilege to work alongside him throughout the design of
@Bloodhound_LSR
The
#LSR
community has lost one of the all time greats.
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When we studied dimensional analysis on
#EGH303
last week didn't think our own prime minister would provide an example of how to get an equation dimensionally inconsistent!
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Was fantastic to meet the local
@Bloodhound_LSR
superfans during the first rolling run at
#HakskeenPan
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On the road to
#Newquay2017
-can't wait to see
@BLOODHOUND_SSC
roar into life after all these years of design
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On
#ThrowbackThursday
I'm comparing the data from this rocket model, fired in the 1990s, with 90s
#CFD
and 2017
#CFD
predictions
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Autumn 2019 and we tested
@Bloodhound_LSR
up to 628 mph in the
#HakskeenPan
South Africa. We now are looking for the partners to take her back for an
#LSR
attempt with a 'green' rocket...
#JoinTheAdventure
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Anyone else find the whole “We will be led by data and not dates.... here are the dates in which we will relax each restriction” thing a bit weird... ??
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The chemistry here is exactly what will happen inside the rocket system of
@Bloodhound_LSR
when we run with a rocket next year (minus the food colouring and on a larger scale!)
Carl Nelson demonstrates the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide using a catalyst. The addition of detergent and food coloring captures some of the oxygen gas generated in a colorful ball of foam. With a rainbow effect [full video: ]
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An early start... off to London and meetings at
@imperialcollege
about an exciting new venture called ‘Expert:Ed’ which will take science and engineering out into schools across the UK...
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Reading this excellent work by
@profmarkreed
on the train north to teach a course
@colegcambria
- unfortunately nowhere does he recommend accompanying work with a pint to improve productivity!
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The joys of home working! Really hope I’m done with these calcs...
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Studying turbulence model effects on
@BLOODHOUND_SSC
rocket/jet exhaust plumes as part of rocket system integration
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