Thomas Clark
E-mail: t.clarkremove_spam@cantab.net

Country: Britain (UK)
Location: 52.2, 0.134

Personal Profile:

I graduated with a Master's Degree in General Engineering in 2006, and am currently doing a doctorate (Coherent vortex simulation and tomographic particle image velocimetry to characterise hairpin vortices in turbulent boundary layers).

I spent a year (between degrees) working as a hydrodynamicist, designing marine propellers / turbines. I still consult for my old company in a part time role, as a designer and advisor for the hydrodynamics of a large tidal (renewable) power turbine, to be placed off of Portland Bill and power the 2012 Olympics watersports arena here in the UK.

I use Matlab (mostly) to develop graphical user interfaces, enabling quick use of fortran-mex based flow solvers in design. I also use Matlab for translation of propeller geometry (very difficult to rigourously define!) between different conventions and formats, as well as using optimisation routines and graphical display to explore design space.

Professional Interests:
marine engineering, propellers, pumpjets, turbomachinery, turbines, propellers, marine propulsion, fluid dynamics

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