International Conference on Vehicle Aerodynamics 2020

Domenic Staron: Research Associate (Vehicle Acoustics and Vibration), FKFS

Domenic Staron, M.Sc. studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt with a focus on automotive technology and acoustics. Since graduating in 2017, he has been working as a research associate at the FKFS (Research Institute of Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart) in the department of Vehicle Acoustics and Vibration. His main research topic is unsteady aeroacoustics.

Kevin Chow: Senior Aero-Thermal Engineer, HORIBA Mira

Kevin Chow studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire before going on to study a Ph.D in applied Computational Fluid Dynamics at Coventry University. Since joining HORIBA MIRA in 2012, Kevin has worked on a variety of projects, such as vehicle aerodynamic development using both CFD and experimental methods, thermal systems simulation and development as well as activities in both of these areas in support of increasing levels of electrification in modern vehicles.

Darren Coe: Senior Manager-Vehicle Engineering, Aston Martin Lagonda

Adrian Gaylard: Technical Specialist, Computational Aerodynamics & WDM, Thermal Aerodynamic Systems Engineering, Jaguar Land Rover

Adrian Gaylard joined British Rail’s Research Division in 1987 with a degree in Physics and Maths from Leicester Polytechnic, moving into aerodynamics in 1989 to apply CFD to rail vehicles and infrastructure. In 1996 he joined MIRA and worked on automotive, wind engineering and sports science aerodynamics projects. Adrian moved to Jaguar Land Rover in 2001 where he is the Technical Specialist for Computational Aerodynamics. Adrian has interests in drag reduction, unsteady aerodynamics, surface contamination and computational aeroacoustics. Adrian is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist, Chair of Vehicle Aerodynamics at the SAE, Chair of the EPSRC National Wind Tunnel Facility Advisory Board and a Board Member of the European Car Aerodynamics Research Association.

Felix Schilling: Vehicle Aerodynamics and Thermal Management, Universität Stuttgart

Felix Schilling, M.Sc. studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart with a focus on Mathematical and Physical Modelling. Since graduating in 2017, he has been working as a research associate at the IFS (Institute of Automotive Engineering University Stuttgart) in the department of Vehicle Aerodynamics and Thermal Management. His research focus is vehicle soiling.

Jeff Howell: Visiting Professor, Loughborough University

Jeff is retired, but continues as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Loughborough University. He started his career in the aircraft industry, but has mainly worked in the field of vehicle aerodynamics. After obtaining a PhD in car aerodynamics at City University, Jeff conducted research into the aerodynamics of high speed maglev trains at Warwick University. Then for nearly twenty years he was head of Aerodynamics at Rover, then Land Rover and Jaguar Land Rover. Following this Jeff had a similar role for nearly ten years at the Tata Motors European Technical Centre.

Adam Brandt: Industrial PhD Student, Chalmers University of Technology

Adam Brandt is an industrial PhD student, employed by CEVT (China Euro Vehicle Technology), doing research on High Speed Stability characteristics of passenger vehicles. The multidisciplinary research project will thus be performed at both the Road Vehicle Aerodynamics and the Vehicle Dynamics research groups at Chalmers. The goal of his research is to improve the virtual development methods by developing simulation tools that can quantify and objectively rate the level of driving stability.

Peter Rhodes: Professor, Nottingham University

Hesham Ebrahim: Professor, Northumbria University

Adriaan Booysen: MSc Candidate, University of Alberta

Adriaan is an MSc student working in the Laboratory of Turbulent Flows at the University of Alberta. His current research focuses on large-scale experimental measurements and bluff body aerodynamics

Olivier Cadot: Professor, Liverpool

Domenic Staron: Engineer, FKFS

Chris Baker: Emeritus Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, University of Birmingham

Chris Baker graduated from his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, before beginning a Research Fellowship there at St Catharine’s College and the Department of Engineering. In the early 1980s he worked in the Aerodynamics Unit of British Rail Research in Derby, before moving to an academic position in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Nottingham.

He remained there till 1998 where he was a lecturer, reader and professor with research interests in vehicle aerodynamics, wind engineering, environmental fluid mechanics and agricultural aerodynamics. In 1998 he moved to the University of Birmingham as Professor of Environmental Fluid Mechanics in the School of Civil Engineering.

In the early years of the present century he was Director of Teaching in the newly formed School of Engineering and Deputy Head of School. From 2003 to 2008 he was Head of Civil Engineering and in 2008 served for a short time as Acting Head of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. He was the Director of the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education 2005-2014. He undertook a 30% secondment to the Transport Systems Catapult Centre in Milton Keynes, as Science Director from 2014 to 2016. He retired at the end of 2017 and took up an Emeritus position.