Whittle Laboratory

He was soon joined by Prof Bill Dawes[8] and together the numerical methods that he has developed, including TBLOCK and MULTALL,[9] became widely used around the world receiving many international awards for his work.

[11] Other computational methods developed in the Lab include 3DNS,[12] a high fidelity flow solver, and dbslice,[13] a JavaScript library for web-based data exploration.

The Whittle Lab is home to a number of experimental facilities used to study thermofluid mechanics in turbomachinery, propulsion, power and aviation.

[14] These include: There are also many smaller rigs used for teaching, probe calibration, real gas dynamics, wind and tidal turbine studies, heat transfer measurement, propulsor performance testing and many other applications.

By radically changing both the culture and tools used in technology development, the New Whittle Laboratory[17] is aimed to dramatically cut the time required to achieve net zero flight.

It will act as a demonstrator of this game changing technology development process, allowing it to be replicated to other sectors and around the world.