Contact Peekarn Teerawathananon
Background
Peekarn Teerawathananon is a PhD researcher in the Propulsion Engineering Centre at Cranfield University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on rotorcraft aerodynamics and aeroacoustics modelling, with particular emphasis on reduced-order modelling for rotorcraft noise prediction. The work aims to develop a rapid analysis capability that supports early-stage vehicle design by predicting noise characteristics throughout the operational envelope. His simulation framework integrates an aeroelastic free-vortex-wake model with the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings (FW-H) integral formulation to generate high-fidelity acoustic data-base for training data-driven reduced-order models. His doctoral research is fully funded and conducted in collaboration with the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).
He received an MEng in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Bristol in 2023, where his master’s thesis investigated the reconstruction of unstable motion in tiltrotor aircraft using reduced-order models coupled with flight-mechanics analysis.