I graduated from the University of Salford in 1993 after completing an honours degree in Aeronautical Engineering.
My first proper job after graduating was with a company called Pall Europe, based in Portsmouth, Hampshire, who specialise in the design and manufacture of high-technology filtration systems for the aircraft industry.
I was employed as a Technical CFD Engineer and amongst many other duties, one of my major responsibilities was to carry out computational analysis of fluid flow systems using a piece of software known as Computational Fluid Dynamics or CFD.
After five good years working for Pall, I decided it was time for a change and moved up to Malmesbury in the beautiful Cotswolds District to work for the famous vacuum cleaner manufacturer, Dyson, the company who revolutionised the worldwide bagless cleaner market. I was taken on as a CFD Engineer in the R&D department helping to design and develop new and innovative domestic appliances. I am currently working in the Engineering Analysis Group (EAG), using the CFD software to optimise complicated fluid pathways within our products. |
The Dyson DC08 Vacuum Cleaner
The Dyson CR01 Contrarotator Washing Machine
James Dyson, the inventor of the Dyson vacuum cleaner | |
The EAG department recently completed a piece of artwork (shown below) using the CFD software, which was displayed at a gallery in Bath with a whole host of other self-portrait exhibits created by employees at Dyson. Two-dimensional head profiles of Paul, Alan, Fred and myself were used to create CFD images of air flowing over them at a variety of speeds ranging from "creeping" flow right upto supersonic!
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| "HEADWINDS" CFD Art with (L-R) Rich, Alan, Fred & Paul |
Whilst at Dyson, we have carried out numerous presentations on our use of CFD in the domestic appliance market. An article based on our use of the Fluent code can be found at the Fluent website at the following link.
(Further information on CFD and the software I use can be found at the FLUENT website.)
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