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Areas of expertise
- Aeronautical Systems
- Aerospace Structures
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
Background
Professor Martin Skote joined Cranfield University as Airbus Professor of Landing Systems Engineering in September 2018. Prior to his current position, he was an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, with a research focus on turbulence, flow control and computational fluid dynamics. He was also Cluster Director at the University's Energy Research Institute for a research team comprising of 15 research staff. During his ten years at the University, he attracted around £2.0M in research grants from industry and government funding bodies and graduated 7 PhD students as sole/main supervisor.
Before taking up his academic position in Nanyang Technological University, Professor Skote worked for the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore, developing a numerical simulation code for air pollution dispersion simulations in collaboration with the National Environment Agency. His PhD in turbulence was awarded (2001) from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in his native country of Sweden.
Current activities
The goal at Cranfield University is to build a Centre for Landing Systems Engineering which will focus not only on the mechanical/electrical/hydraulic aspects of landing gear but also consider the landing system as a part of a much larger ecosystem including airport infrastructure and air traffic management, together with all the future innovate and disruptive technologies such as autonomous taxiing and intelligent landing. The Centre has so far attracted £7.3M in funding (Airbus, IUK-ATI, EPSRC) and is currently comprising 14 PDRAs. Prof Martin Skote is supervising 6 PhD students and is the group leader for the Advanced Lightweight Structures Group.
Modern aircraft design has led to lighter fuselage and wings, as well as quieter engines. The development of landing gear, however, is lagging due to that technological improvements of other aircraft parts cannot be directly transferred to the landing gear (e.g. the use of composites), partially because of its unique requirements and harsh operating conditions. In addition, airports have reached their maximum capacity and the option of occupying more space is no longer viable due to city growth together with environmental aspects such as noise and air pollution. Therefore, landing systems will need to be developed that allows aircraft to operate more fuel efficiently and in closer proximity to each other, both in time and space. This may mean changes to not just aircraft design, but also to novel operational ground technology and methods.
The new Centre's research will look at ways to improve landing gear. It will focus on system design including noise, drag, vibrations, wasted fuel-burn, brakes, shock-absorbers, joint leakage, tyre material, composites and sensors together with network communications.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Deja J, Dayyani I, Nair V & Skote M. (2024). More Electric Aircraft Conversion to All-Electric During Ground Operations: Battery-Powered Landing Gear Drive System. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 10(1)
- Maltsev V, Skote M & Tsoutsanis P. (2024). High-order hybrid DG-FV framework for compressible multi-fluid problems on unstructured meshes. Journal of Computational Physics, 502
- Sheikh Al-Shabab AA, Grenko B, Silva PASF, Antoniadis AF, Tsoutsanis P, .... (2024). Unsteady Multiphase Simulation of Oleo-Pneumatic Shock Absorber Flow. Fluids, 9(3)
- Silva PASF, Sheikh Al-Shabab AA, Tsoutsanis P & Skote M. (2024). Study of Orifice Design on Oleo-Pneumatic Shock Absorber. Fluids, 9(5)
- Deja J, Dayyani I & Skote M. (2023). Modeling and performance evaluation of sustainable arresting gear energy recovery system for commercial aircraft. International Journal of Green Energy, 20(10)
- Maltsev V, Yuan D, Jenkins KW, Skote M & Tsoutsanis P. (2023). Hybrid discontinuous Galerkin-finite volume techniques for compressible flows on unstructured meshes. Journal of Computational Physics, 473(January)
- Mahjouri S, Shabani R & Skote M. (2023). Conceptual design of a new experimental setup to simulate aircraft tyre spin-up dynamics. Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 95(8)
- Lin Z, Liang D, Bhalla APS, Sheikh Al-Shabab AA, Skote M, .... (2023). How wavelength affects hydrodynamic performance of two accelerating mirror-symmetric undulating hydrofoils. Physics of Fluids, 35(8)
- Mahjouri S, Shabani R & Skote M. (2022). Reducing temperature, drag load and wear during aircraft tyre spin-up. Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 94(6)
- Sheikh Al-Shabab AA, Grenko B, Vitlaris D, Tsoutsanis P, Antoniadis AF, .... (2022). Numerical Investigation of Orifice Nearfield Flow Development in Oleo-Pneumatic Shock Absorbers. Fluids, 7(2)
- Maltsev V, Skote M & Tsoutsanis P. (2022). High-order methods for diffuse-interface models in compressible multi-medium flows: A review. Physics of Fluids, 34(2)
- Skote M. (2022). Drag Reduction of Turbulent Boundary Layers by Travelling and Non-Travelling Waves of Spanwise Wall Oscillations. Fluids, 7(2)
- Ricco P & Skote M. (2022). Integral relations for the skin-friction coefficient of canonical flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 943
- Antoniadis AF, Drikakis D, Farmakis PS, Fu L, Kokkinakis I, .... (2022). UCNS3D: An open-source high-order finite-volume unstructured CFD solver. Computer Physics Communications, 279(October)
- Ricco P, Skote M & Leschziner MA. (2021). A review of turbulent skin-friction drag reduction by near-wall transverse forcing. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 123(May)
- Tsoutsanis P, Adebayo EM, Merino AC, Arjona AP & Skote M. (2021). CWENO Finite-Volume Interface Capturing Schemes for Multicomponent Flows Using Unstructured Meshes. Journal of Scientific Computing, 89(3)
- Tay K, Koh T-Y & Skote M. (2021). Characterizing mesoscale variability in low-level jet simulations for CBLAST-LOW 2001 campaign. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 133(2)
- Tieo J-J, Skote M & Srikanth N. (2020). Suitability of power-law extrapolation for wind speed estimation on a tropical island. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 205
- Malik M, Bouffanais R & Skote M. (2020). Viscoelastic laminar drag bounds in pipe flow. Physics of Fluids, 32(3)
- Dobriyal R, Mishra M, Bölander M & Skote M. (2020). Effects of Streamlining a Bluff Body in the Laminar Vortex Shedding Regime. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 142(2)
- Tran V, Ng EYK & Skote M. (2020). CFD simulation of dense gas dispersion in neutral atmospheric boundary layer with OpenFOAM. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 132(2)
- Malik M & Skote M. (2019). A linear system for pipe flow stability analysis allowing for boundary condition modifications. Computers & Fluids, 192
- Skote M, Mishra M & Wu Y. (2019). Wall Oscillation Induced Drag Reduction Zone in a Turbulent Boundary Layer. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 102(3)
- Liu X, Mishra M, Skote M & Fu C. (2019). On Visualizing Continuous Turbulence Scales. Computer Graphics Forum, 38(1)
- Negi PS, Mishra M, Schlatter P & Skote M. (2019). Bypass transition delay using oscillations of spanwise wall velocity. Physical Review Fluids, 4(6)
- Jiang F, Wang K, Skote M, Wong TN & Duan F. (2018). The Effects of Oil Property and Inclination Angle on Oil–Water Core Annular Flow Through U-Bends. Heat Transfer Engineering, 39(6)
- Jiang F, Wang K, Skote M, Wong TN & Duan F. (2018). Simulation of non-Newtonian oil-water core annular flow through return bends. Heat and Mass Transfer, 54(1)
- Skote M, Sim T & Srikanth N. (2018). Temporal Variation of the Pressure from a Steady Impinging Jet Model of Dry Microburst-Like Wind Using URANS. Computation, 6(1)
- Malik M, Skote M & Bouffanais R. (2018). Growth mechanisms of perturbations in boundary layers over a compliant wall. Physical Review Fluids, 3(1)
- Tieo J-J, Koh T-Y, Skote M & Srikanth N. (2018). Variance Characteristics of Tropical Radiosonde Winds Using a Vector-Tensor Method. Energies, 11(1)
- Wang K, Jiang F, Bai B, Wong TN, Duan F, .... (2017). Pressure drop, void fraction and wave behavior in two-phase non-Newtonian churn flow. Chemical Engineering Science, 174
- Wu Y, Tang Z, Yang S, Skote M, Tang H, .... (2017). Proper-Orthogonal-Decomposition Study of Turbulent Near Wake of S805 Airfoil in Deep Stall. AIAA Journal, 55(6)
- Mohamed MA, Wu Y & Skote M. (2017). Assessment of Simple RANS Turbulence Models for Stall Delay Applications at Low Reynolds Number. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 863
- Wu Y, Lee HM, Tang H, Skote M & Shan Y. (2017). An Experimental Study of the Rotational Effects on Separated Turbulent Flow During Stall Delay. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 98(1)
- Chen YH, Skote M, Steffen C & Nordborg H. (2017). FSI simulation of flexible tandem insect wings in counter stroke. WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics, 12
- Skote M & Wallin S. (2016). Near-wall damping in model predictions of separated flows. International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 30(3)
- Sim TS, Ong MC, Quek WY, Sum ZW, Lai WX, .... (2016). A numerical study of microburst-like wind load acting on different block array configurations using an impinging jet model. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 61
- Pang ALJ, Skote M & Lim SY. (2016). Modelling high Re flow around a 2D cylindrical bluff body using the k-ω (SST) turbulence model. Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal, 16(1)
- Skote M & Ibrahim IH. (2016). Utilizing the L-PSJA for controlling cylindrical wake flow. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 26(5)
- Chen YH & Skote M. (2016). Gliding performance of 3-D corrugated dragonfly wing with spanwise variation. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 62
- Pang ALJ, Skote M, Lim SY, Gullman-Strand J & Morgan N. (2016). A numerical approach for determining equilibrium scour depth around a mono-pile due to steady currents. Applied Ocean Research, 57
- Chen YH & Skote M. (2015). Study of lift enhancing mechanisms via comparison of two distinct flapping patterns in the dragonfly Sympetrum flaveolum. Physics of Fluids, 27(3)
- Skote M, Mishra M & Wu Y. (2015). Drag Reduction of a Turbulent Boundary Layer over an Oscillating Wall and Its Variation with Reynolds Number. International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2015(1)
- Negi PS, Mishra M & Skote M. (2015). DNS of a Single Low-Speed Streak Subject to Spanwise Wall Oscillations. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 94(4)
- Mishra M & Skote M. (2015). Drag Reduction in Turbulent Boundary Layers with Half Wave Wall Oscillations. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015(1)
- Li H, Neng Wong T, Skote M & Duan F. (2014). Non-Newtonian Liquid-Gas Non-Uniform Stratified Flow With Interfacial Level Gradient Through Horizontal Tubes. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 136(2)
- Ibrahim IH & Skote M. (2014). Simulating plasma actuators in a channel flow configuration by utilizing the modified Suzen–Huang model. Computers & Fluids, 99
- Skote M. (2014). Scaling of the velocity profile in strongly drag reduced turbulent flows over an oscillating wall. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 50
- Mishra M, Liu X, Skote M & Fu C-W. (2014). Kolmogorov spectrum consistent optimization for multi-scale flow decomposition. Physics of Fluids, 26(5)
- Li H, Wong TN, Skote M & Duan F. (2014). Non-Newtonian two-phase stratified flow with curved interface through horizontal and inclined pipes. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 74
- Rong S, Li H, Skote M, Wong TN & Duan F. (2014). Numerical Simulation of Unidirectional Stratified Flow by Moving Particle Semi Implicit Method. Communications in Computational Physics, 15(3)
- Skote M. (2013). Comparison between spatial and temporal wall oscillations in turbulent boundary layer flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 730
- Chen YH, Skote M, Zhao Y & Huang WM. (2013). Stiffness evaluation of the leading edge of the dragonfly wing via laser vibrometer. Materials Letters, 97
- Susanto S, Skote M & Chauhan S. (2013). In vitro assessment of combined Doppler ultrasound and CFD modeling in arterial blood flow quantification. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, 33
- Li H, Wong TN, Skote M & Duan F. (2013). A simple model for predicting the pressure drop and film thickness of non-Newtonian annular flows in horizontal pipes. Chemical Engineering Science, 102
- Chen YH, Skote M, Zhao Y & Huang WM. (2013). Dragonfly (Sympetrum flaveolum) flight: Kinematic measurement and modelling. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 40
- Halimi Bin Ibrahim I & Skote M. (2013). Effects of the scalar parameters in the Suzen‐Huang model on plasma actuator characteristics. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 23(6)
- Ibrahim IH & Skote M. (2012). Simulations of the linear plasma synthetic jet actuator utilizing a modified Suzen-Huang model. Physics of Fluids, 24(11)
- Skote M. (2012). Temporal and spatial transients in turbulent boundary layer flow over an oscillating wall. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 38
- Ibrahim I & Skote M. (2011). Boundary Condition Modifications of the Suzen-Huang Plasma Actuator Model. International Journal of Flow Control, 3(2-3)
- Skote M. (2011). Turbulent boundary layer flow subject to streamwise oscillation of spanwise wall-velocity. Physics of Fluids, 23(8)
- Skote M, Mårtensson GE & Johansson AV. (2011). Flow in a rapidly rotating cone‐shaped PCR‐tube. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 21(6)
- Yudhistira I & Skote M. (2011). Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent boundary layer over an oscillating wall. Journal of Turbulence, 12(9)
- Mårtensson G, Skote M, Malmqvist M, Falk M, Asp A, .... (2006). Rapid PCR amplification of DNA utilizing Coriolis effects. European Biophysics Journal, 35(6)
- SKOTE M, SANDBERG M, WESTERBERG U, CLAESSON L & JOHANSSON A. (2005). Numerical and experimental studies of wind environment in an urban morphology. Atmospheric Environment, 39(33)
- SKOTE M & HENNINGSON DS. (2002). Direct numerical simulation of a separated turbulent boundary layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 471
- Skote M, Haritonidis JH & Henningson DS. (2002). Varicose instabilities in turbulent boundary layers. Physics of Fluids, 14(7)
- Komminaho J & Skote M. (2002). Reynolds stress budgets in Couette and boundary layer flows. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 68(2)
- Skote M, Henningson DS & Henkes RAWM. (1998). Direct numerical simulation of self-similar turbulent boundary layers in adverse pressure gradients. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 60(1)
Conference Papers
- Ramachandra LS, Ali F, Plastropoulos A, Avdelidis NP, Jennions I, .... (2024). Evaluation of aircraft wheel and brake temperatures based on infrared thermographic imaging
- El Mir H, King S, Skote M, Alam M & Place S. (2024). Landing Gear Health Assessment: Synergising Flight Data Analysis with Theoretical Prognostics in a Hybrid Assessment Approach
- Deja J, Akbari A, Dayyani I, Skote M & Lowther D. (2023). Energy Harvesting Frictionless Brakes for Short-Haul Aircraft: Thermal and Electromagnetic Feasibility of an Axial-Flux Machine for a Landing Gear Drive System
- El Mir H, King S, Skote M & Perinanayagam S. (2023). Machine learning requirements for the airworthiness of structural health monitoring systems in aircraft
- Sheikh Al-Shabab A, Grenko B, Vitlaris D, Tsoutsanis P, Antoniadis A, .... (2022). Numerical Investigation of Oleo-Pneumatic Shock Absorber: A Multifidelity Approach
- Maltsev V, Tsoutsanis P & Skote M. (2022). Hybrid Finite-Volume/Discontinuous Galerkin framework for the solution of Multiphysics problems using unstructured meshes
- Al-Shabab A, Vitlaris D, Lin Z, Grenko B, Tsoutsanis P, .... (2021). Numerical Investigation of Oleo-Pneumatic Shock Absorber: Setup and Validation
- Lin Z, Al-Shabab AA, Vitlaris D, Tsoutsanis P, Antoniadis A, .... (2021). Effects of Heat-Conductive Obstacles on Conjugate Heat Transfer of Backward-Facing Step Flow
- Lin Z, Al-Shabab AA, Vitlaris D, Tsoutsanis P, Antoniadis A, .... (2021). Withdrawal: Effects of Heat-Conductive Obstacles on Conjugate Heat Transfer of Backward-Facing Step Flow
- Pang ALJ, Gullman-Strand J, Morgan N, Skote M & Lim SY. (2016). Determining Scour Depth for Offshore Structures Based on a Hydrodynamics and Optimisation Approach
- Paramasivam S, Zhao D, Skote M & Schluter JU. (2016). Detailed Study of Effects of Crosswind and Turbulence Intensity on Aircraft Wake-Vortex in Ground Proximity
- Pang ALJ, Skote M & Lim SY. (2013). Turbulence modeling around extremely large cylindrical bluff bodies
- Kulish V, Skote M & Horak V. (2012). A model of laminar-turbulent transition based on viscous stream buckling
- Ibrahim IH & Skote M. (2010). Modeling the Plasma Actuator via the Splitting of the Electric Potential
- Skote M & Henningson DS. (2001). DNS OF A SEPARATING TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER
Books
- Skote M, Mishra M, Negi PS, Wu Y, Lee HM, .... (2016). Wall Oscillation Induced Drag Reduction of Turbulent Boundary Layers In Peinke J, Kampers G, Oberlack M, Wacławczyk M & Talamelli A (eds), Springer Proceedings in Physics (165). Springer International Publishing.
- Hirose N, Matsuo Y, Nakamura T, Skote M & Henningson D. (2000). Large Scale Parallel Direct Numerical Simulation of a Separating Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow over a Flat Plate Using NAL Numerical Wind Tunnel In Valero M, Joe K, Kitsuregawa M & Tanaka H (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1940). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- Skote M & Henningson D. (1999). DNS of a Turbulent Boundary Layer Under a Strong Adverse Pressure Gradient In Knight D & Sakell L (eds), Fluid Mechanics and its Applications (54). Springer Netherlands.
- Skote M & Henningson DS. (1998). Direct Numerical Simulation of Adverse Pressure Gradient Turbulent Boundary Layers In Frisch U(ed.), Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (46). Springer Netherlands.
- Skote M & Henningson DS. (1997). Direct numerical simulation of turbulent boundary layers with adverse pressure gradient In Liu C, Liu Z & Sakell L (eds), Advances in DNS/LES: Direct Numerical Simulation and Large Eddy Simulation. Greyden Press.