Contact Dr Chawki Abdessemed
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754463
- Email: Chawki.Abdessemed@cranfield.ac.uk
- Google Scholar
- ResearchGate
Areas of expertise
- Aircraft Design
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Gas Turbines & Propulsion
Current activities
Current research focus:
Research in the area of propulsion systems aerodynamic integration within the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC).
Development and delivery of aerodynamic tools and software for the analysis and optimisation of aero-engine intakes, nacelles and nozzles.
Preliminary assessment of aerodynamic performance including drag and aero-engine installation effects.
Projects Involvement:
- Advanced Product Concept Analysis Environment project (APROCONE) (delivered)
- Powerplant Integration of Novel Engine systems (PINES)(delivered)
- Fan And Nacelle Future Aerodynamic Research (FANFARE)
- FANTASIA
Interests:
- Multidisciplinary design optimisation
- Dimensionality reduction
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Aerodynamics
- Unsteady Aerodynamics
- RANS-LES modeling
- Morphing wings
- High-Lift System Aerodynamics
- Green Aviation
- Machine learning
Clients
- Leonardo
- Rolls-Royce plc
- Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI)
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Abdessemed C, Bouferrouk A & Yao Y (2022) Effects of an unsteady morphing wing with seamless side-edge transition on aerodynamic performance, Energies, 15 (3) Article No. 1093.
- Abdessemed C, Yao Y & Bouferrouk A (2021) Near stall unsteady flow responses to morphing flap deflections, Fluids, 6 (5) Article No. 180.
- Abdessemed C, Bouferrouk A & Yao Y (2021) Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic analysis of a harmonically morphing airfoil using dynamic meshing, Acoustics, 3 (1) 177-199.
- Abdessemed C, Yao Y, Bouferrouk A & Narayan P (2018) Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 28 (5) 1117-1133.
Conference Papers
- Abdessemed C, Yao Y, Bouferrouk A & Narayan P (2019) Flow response to rapid morphing flap deflection. In: 54th 3AF International Conference on Applied Aerodynamics, Paris, 25-27 March 2019.
- Abdessemed C, Yao Y, Bouferrouk A & Narayan P (2019) Influence of non-iterative time-advancement schemes on the aerodynamic prediction of pitching airfoils using dynamic mesh. In: 8th International Symposium on Physics of Fluids (ISPF8), Xian, 10-13 June 2019.
- Abdessemed C, Yao Y, Bouferrouk A & Narayan P (2018) Analysis of a 3D unsteady morphing wing with seamless side-edge transition. In: 2018 Applied Aerodynamics Conference AIAA Aviation Forum, Atlanta, 25-29 June 2018.
- Abdessemed C, Yao Y, Bouferrouk A & Narayan P (2018) Aerodynamic analysis of a harmonically morphing flap using a hybrid turbulence model and dynamic meshing. In: 2018 Applied Aerodynamics Conference AIAA Aviation Forum, Atlanta, 25-29 June 2018.
- Abdessemed C, Yao Y, Narayan P & Bouferrouk A. (2017) Unsteady parametrization of a morphing wing design for improved aerodynamic performance. In: 52nd 3AF International Conference on Applied Aerodynamics, Lyon, 27-29 March 2017.