Contact Dr David Judt
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 758224
- Email: david.judt@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Aeronautical Systems
- Aerospace Manufacturing
- Aircraft Design
- Airworthiness
Background
David received a MEng in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Glasgow in 2010, which included a 4-month placement at the DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen. He joined Cranfield University in 2011 and completed his PhD in 2014. As a research fellow, he worked on airframe systems modelling of rotorcraft technologies under the Clean Sky TE project and the Airbus Factory of Aircraft Future (FOAF) project, exploring wing production increases through improvements in system installation. He has contributed to projects such as the UHBRThermals on integrated thermal management solutions for systems, ATI ZEST1 on future large civil aircraft hydrogen fuel systems modelling and ATI LANDone on synergistic energy uses between landing gear and high lift systems.
David is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Treasurer for the local Cranfield Branch. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Current activities
David's wider research focuses on developing flexible and rapid design tools for airframe systems. In particular, parametric and knowledge-based approaches, which provide a high degree of automation and coupling to heuristic search algorithms for effective Pareto-optimal design space exploration.
His current research is exploring faster definitions of 1-D thermal-fluid models to evaluate both traditional and novel airframe systems, on a component and architectural level.
He teaches aircraft fuel systems and leads the module on system design for assembly and manufacturing and holds the course director role for the Aerospace Vehicle Design MSc. March intake. He supervises MSc. and PhD students and provides continuous technical support for the AVD Group Design Projects.
Clients
- Airbus SE
- Aircraft Technology Institute
- Meggit PLC
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
Publications
Articles In Journals
- van Heerden ASJ, Judt DM, Jafari S, Lawson CP, Nikolaidis T, .... (2022). Aircraft thermal management: Practices, technology, system architectures, future challenges, and opportunities. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 128(January)
- Fu J, van Heerden ASJ, Judt D & Lawson C. (2022). A Generic Mission-Level Flight Control Surface EMA Power Consumption Simulation Tool. Aerospace, 9(6)
- Verhulst T, Judt D, Lawson C, Chung Y, Al-Tayawe O, .... (2022). Review for State-of-the-Art Health Monitoring Technologies on Airframe Fuel Pumps. International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, 13(1)
- Judt D, Lawson C & van Heerden ASJ. (2021). Rapid design of aircraft fuel quantity indication systems via multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 28(2)
- Judt D, Lawson C & Lockett H. (2020). Experimental investigation into aircraft system manual assembly performance under varying structural component orientations. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 234(4)
- Judt D, Forster K, Lockett H, Lawson C & Webb P. (2016). Aircraft Wing Build Philosophy Change through System Pre-Equipping of Major Components. SAE International Journal of Aerospace, 9(1)
- Judt DM & Lawson C. (2016). Development of an automated aircraft subsystem architecture generation and analysis tool. Engineering Computations, 33(5)
- Judt DM & Lawson CP. (2015). Application of an automated aircraft architecture generation and analysis tool to unmanned aerial vehicle subsystem design. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 229(9)
Conference Papers
- Verhulst T, Ng EY-K, Chung Y, Judt D & Lawson C. (2022). Predicting Cavitation Erosion on Two-Stage Pumps Using CFD
- van Heerden AS, Judt DM, Lawson CP, Jafari S, Nikolaidis T, .... (2020). Framework for integrated dynamic thermal simulation of future civil transport aircraft
- van Heerden ASJ, Judt D, Lawson CP & Bosak D. (2019). Effects of more electric systems on fuel tank thermal behaviour
- Hashim F, Lawson CP & Judt DM. (2016). Rotorcraft systems modelling for twin-engine heavy helicopter
- Judt D & Lawson C. (2012). Methodology for Automated Aircraft Systems Architecture Enumeration and Analysis
