{"id":2060,"date":"2020-08-19T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2020-08-14T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T11:04:11","slug":"celebrate-a-phd-control-of-vortices-on-delta-wing-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/celebrate-a-phd-control-of-vortices-on-delta-wing-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate a PhD – control of vortices on delta wing aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With all the fantastically fascinating research going on in Engineering, Design and Mathematics, PhD student successes are a regular occurrence. We want to celebrate with our students as they pass their vivas, so please get in contact with engineeringourfuture@uwe.ac.uk<\/a> to celebrate the PhDs in your group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here’s one from the Aerospace cluster – congratulations Doctor<\/strong> Jana-Sabrina Stucke!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jana passed her PhD viva in July. Her doctoral research was focused on understanding the behaviour and control of vortices on a delta wing aircraft as a function of shape. She describes her project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“For my PhD I investigated the effect of thickness and maximum thickness location on the vortex development of a 65\u00b0 swept back delta wing configuration with sharp leading-edges. Here, I focused on the stability and performance at low speeds, encountered during take-off, landing and loitering, as they are most critical for future military Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles.<\/p>

“I could show numerically and experimentally that upper surface shape of a wing with sharp leading-edges has a significant impact on the recovered leading-edge suction and thus performance and stability, a feature normally associated with round leading edged delta wings.”<\/p>Jana-Sabrina Stucke<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The work will help aircraft and drone designers to produce more efficient vehicles with higher aerodynamic performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it wasn’t easy – Jana explains that there were countless tough stages during the PhD where she wanted give up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now she’s looking to the future…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ideally, I would like to return to mainland Europe and work in robotics and AI as this is where my real passion lies. For now, I will stay in the UK though and maybe if the stars align you will see me on campus again as MSc student in Data Science.”<\/p>Jana-Sabrina Stucke<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Best wishes with whatever the future holds Jana!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all the fantastically fascinating research going on in Engineering, Design and Mathematics, PhD student successes are a regular occurrence. We want to celebrate with our students as they pass their vivas, so please get in contact with engineeringourfuture@uwe.ac.uk to celebrate the PhDs in your group. And here’s one from the Aerospace cluster – congratulations … Continue reading “Celebrate a PhD – control of vortices on delta wing aircraft”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}