Prof. Andrew Wheeler

After obtaining my PhD on unsteady flows in compressors at Cambridge in 2007, I worked as the Rolls-Royce Research fellow at the Osney Laboratory, University of Oxford.

Following this post, I’ve worked at Queen Mary, University of London and Southampton University as a lecturer. I moved back to Cambridge University and the Whittle Laboratory in December 2014. As well as my role as a lecturer at the Engineering Department, I was an EPSRC Fellow from 2014-2019, and I am Fellow of St. John’s College.

My research interests are focused on the thermofluid dynamics of turbomachines used in both aero-engine propulsion and land-based power.

I have published articles on a wide range of topics such as: unsteady flows in compressors; transonic turbine aerodynamics and heat transfer; Direct Numerical Simulation of turbomachinery flows; real-gas flows in Organic Rankine Cycle turbines.

I am studying how real-gas behaviour affects turbine performance, with application to the use of turbines for heat-recovery systems (such as Organic Rankine Cycles). The work is both experimental and computational. See here for more details.

I have developed a high-order code (3DNS), which is written specifically for time-accurate high-fidelity simulations (DNS/LES) of turbomachinery flows. The code is a 4th order accurate compressible Navier-Stokes solver which can also solve for real-gas (such as for Organic Rankine Cycles turbines).