Dr Andrew Garmory

MEng, PhD

  • Reader in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Publications
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Background

Member of the Rolls-Royce UTC in Combustion System Aerothermal Processes since 2012.

Specialities:

  • CFD methods, combustion and multi-phase flows, aeroacoustics.

Past positions:

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge, 2007-2009.
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cornell University, 2010.
  • Software Development Engineer, Eulerian multiphase flows, CD-adapco, 2010-2012.
  • Lecturer in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Loughborough University, 2012-date.

Qualifications:

  • MEng (hons), Engineering, University of Cambridge, 2004
  • PhD, ‘Micromixing Effects in Atmospheric Reacting Flows’, University of Cambridge, 2007

Outline of main research interests

Development and application of CFD methods for flows within modern gas turbines. In particular this includes modelling reacting flows, such as combustion, and multiphase flows such as the fuel spray within the combustor or ingestion of particles, such as ice or sand, into the engine. CFD simulations of  the effect of acoustic pressure waves, such as those produced by combustion instabilities, on flows within the engine is also taking place in close collaboration with experimental work on the same subject.

Research groups:

  • Applied Aerodynamics

Selected research projects:

  • SILOET 2 Project 10 - Virtual Engine Design Systems, TSB, 2013-2016
  • NaDIT - Novel Aerodynamic Design and Integration Technologies, TSB, 2013-2016
  • AMEL - Advanced Methods for the Prediction of Lean-burn Combustor Unsteady Phenomena, EU (Clean-Sky), 2015-2016

Current teaching responsibilities

Aeronautical Engineering, Loughborough University:

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (TTC102)
  • Aerodynamics (Part C) TTC051

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Gas Turbine Aerodynamics:

  • Technical Computing

Wetherell, J and Garmory, A (2024) The effect of film development on primary breakup in a prefilming airblast atomizer, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 146(9), 091012, ISSN: 0742-4795. DOI: 10.1115/1.4064729.

Soli, A, Adoua, R, Langella, I, Denman, P, Garmory, A, Page, G (2022) Effect of compressor unsteady wakes on a gas turbine combustor flow, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 144(12), 121018, ISSN: 0742-4795. DOI: 10.1115/1.4055750.

Patel, D, Garmory, A, Passmore, M (2022) On the wake of an isolated rotating wheel: An experimental and numerical investigation, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 227, pp.105049-105049, ISSN: 0167-6105. DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2022.105049.

Coombes, M, Newton, S, Knowles, J, Garmory, A (2022) The influence of rotor downwash on spray distribution under a quadrotor unmanned aerial system, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 196, 106807, ISSN: 0168-1699. DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2022.106807.

Hodgson, G, Passmore, M, Skarysz, M, Garmory, A, Paolillo, F (2021) Contact angle measurements for automotive exterior water management, Experiments in Fluids, 62(5), 119, ISSN: 0723-4864. DOI: 10.1007/s00348-021-03219-2.

Patel, D, Garmory, A, Passmore, M (2020) The effect of cornering on the aerodynamics of a multi-element wing in ground effect, Fluids, 6(1), 3, ISSN: 2311-5521. DOI: 10.3390/fluids6010003.

Treleaven, NCW, Garmory, A, Page, GJ (2020) The Effects of Turbulence on Jet Stability and the Flame Transfer Function in a Lean-burn Combustor, Combustion Science and Technology, 192(11), pp.2115-2137, ISSN: 0010-2202. DOI: 10.1080/00102202.2020.1777992.

Treleaven, NCW, Staufer, M, Spencer, A, Garmory, A, Page, G (2020) Application of the PODFS method to inlet turbulence generated using the digital filter technique, Journal of Computational Physics, 415(August 2020), 109541, ISSN: 0021-9991. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2020.109541.

Marsh, T, Hodgson, G, Garmory, A, Patel, D (2020) A study on the effect of debris location on a double element wing in ground effect, SAE Technical Papers, 2020-01-0693, ISSN: 0148-7191. DOI: 10.4271/2020-01-0693.

Su, J, Garmory, A, Carrotte, JF (2019) On the acoustic response of a generic gas turbine fuel injector passage, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 446, pp.343-373, ISSN: 0022-460X. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2019.01.043.

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External roles and responsibilities:

  • Member of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Gas Turbine Aerodynamics
  • Member of the Rolls-Royce UTC in Combustion System Aerothermal Processes
  • Member of the UK Consortium on Turbulent Reacting Flows (UKCTRF)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • PhD Examiner
  • Referee of papers for international journals:
    • Combustion and Flame
    • Flow Turbulence and Combustion
    • Combustion Theory and Modelling