Research Associate in Future Gas Turbine Combustion Systems (2023 – present).
Qualifications:
- MEng in Aeronautical Engineering at Loughborough University (2018)
- MRes in Gas Turbine Aerodynamics at University of Cambridge (2019)
- PhD, ‘Determination of Fuel Passage Convective Heat Transfer in Staged Lean Direct Injection Fuel Spray Nozzles’, Loughborough University, 2024
Current research:
Experimentation of the aerodynamic and thermodynamic processes in gas turbine combustion systems including:
- Low pressure combustion systems
- Reacting combustion experiments
- Fuel Injector Heat Transfer and cooling
- Fuel degradation and deposition
- Combustor cooling
- Additive manufacture roughness and heat transfer
Supervisors:
Prof. J.F. Carrotte
Research group:
- Applied Aerodynamics
- Walker, T. D., Peacock, G. L., Brend, M. A., Bonham, C., & Masters, J. D. (2022). Heat Transfer and Residence Time in Lean Direct Injection Fuel Galleries. ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 144(5), 051001.
- Walker, T. D., & Bonham, C. (2023). Heat Transfer in an Injector-Scaled Additively Manufactured Fuel Passage. Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo, 7–B, 1–13.
- Walker, T. D., & Bonham, C. (2024). Heat Transfer in an Injector-Scaled Additively Manufactured Fuel Passage. ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, 146(1), 1–11.