Research Programmes
FLAVIIR project
A five year research programme looking at technologies for future unmanned air vehicles (UAV) funded jointly by BAE SYSTEMS and EPSRC. Managed from Cranfield University and including 9 other University partners, the programme covers all the key aspects of the next generation UAV from an aeronautical point of view. Further information..
Other major Research Programmes within the group include:
- BAe/Rolls-Royce University Technology Partnership for Design
- Multi-level, Multi-discipline Design Methods using Stochastic Global Optimisers
- Flexible Engineering Design using Knowledge Based CAD and Evolutionary Search
- JREI Funded UTP Equipment Grant
- Rolls-Royce Inter-casing Design Optimisation
- Advanced Active and Passive Structural Noise Control
- Efficient analysis of repetitive structures (EPSRC)
- Testing of advanced flight control systems (QinetiQ)
- Gas turbine engine control Systems
- Modelling of fatigue behaviour in automotive bearings (Dana Glacier Vandervell)
- Boundary element tools for design with composites
- Material characterisation for advanced numerical analysis
- Micromagnetic modelling of nanostructures
- Grid Enabled Optimisation and DesIgn Search for Engineering (GEODISE)
- e-Science projects hosted in the Regional e-Science Centre
- Defence Aerospace Research Partnership (DARP) in design
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