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Bill Dawes
Company Founder and Director
Bill Dawes is the Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge University. After completing a PhD at Cambridge he worked for the Central Electricity Generating Board at Marchwood Laboratories where he developed numerical methods and worked on a number of steam turbine operational problems. Since returning to Cambridge in 1984 to teach Computational Fluid Dynamics he has worked on a range of numerical methods aimed at predicting fully 3D viscous flow in turbomachines, especially in axial and centrifugal compressors. His structured blade-to-blade Navier-Stokes code (BT0B3d) has become an industry standard design tool and he has now developed a state-of-the-art adaptive unstructured version of this (NEWT). Nearly 50 organisations worldwide have licensed the software. More recently this code was extended in collaboration with Drs Stewart Cant and Mark Savill to handle combustion for predicting lean pre-mixed combustor flows and confined explosion flows.
Over the last ten years research has broadened into CFD process integration and automatic design optimisation – especially using coupled sets of modelling hierarchies. Current research draws inspiration from advanced computer graphics and physics-based animation and attempts to enable seamless and tactile integration between solid modelling, mesh generation, geometry editing and flow simulation.
Throughout, great emphasis has been placed on dealing with real-world complex 3D engineering flows and on developing methods and method integration strategies to cover the whole CFD process from CAD to mesh to flow simulation.
Professor Dawes sits on a number of governmental and industrial advisory boards and acts as consultant to a range of aerospace industries. Bill is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Aeronautical Society and is a Chartered Engineer.
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