Our Clients
We work with a range of clients, from large corporations to small businesses and within a wide range of industrial sectors. Each client’s requirement is unique and hence we develop bespoke work programmes that focus on delivering cost-effective solutions within the required (often short) time-frames.
The majority of our work is confidential and we take considerable care to ensure confidentiality. However, we can list a selection of the projects that we have completed in order to show the range and type of work that we undertake:
Renewable Energy
Analysis of a proposed tidal renewable energy device
Analysis of water turbines used in ocean stream renewable energy devices
Validation of a CFD methodology to analyse wind turbine blades
Marine
Assessment & development of a novel rowing oar concept
Development of a new family of surf-ski boats
Analysis and optimisation of slender hulls
Consumer Goods
Development of a new domestic kettle concept
Development of an analysis tool to develop a thermal switch
Development of a novel water cooling domestic appliance
Analysis of a shower valve
General Industrial
Design development of a Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) reactor
Improving the performance of a hygienic centrifugal pump
Developing an understanding of the physics of enclosed rotating flows
Cooling airlflow provision for a component testing rig
Die development for plastic extrusion
Cooling an electric motor used in a rheological application
Analysis of a pressure-swirl atomiser
Analysis of a oil-quench production plant
Analysis of the supersonic flow within a miniature valve
Assessment of a novel soil disinfection device
Assessment of the flows within an ink-jet printer head
Development of a computational model for a novel solid-state refrigeration system
Assessment and development of a novel in-line static mixer
Transport
Development of a cooling configuration for a high power automotive electric motor
Design development of a racecar airbox
Assessment of the external aerodynamic performance of concept vehicles
Design development of a high power screwpump used in power steering
Elimination of cavitation within a fuel injection system
Assessment & development of the cooling configuration for an Unmanned Air Vehicle
Clean sheet design of an automotive cooling fan
Assessment of a modern application of Brunel’s Atmospheric Railway
Design development of an small scale ornithopter
Oil & Gas
Assessment & development of a novel borehole device
Development of a new device to prevent the formation of slugs
Development of a new device to improve the performance of hydrocarbon cracking reactors
Environmental
Environmental assessment of a proposed weir design
Environmental assessment of power station discharge
External airflow and ventilation of buildings
Medical Engineering
Design development of a prosthesis wear testing rig
Analysis of oxygen transport within blood
