Dr Jim Shaikh
Professional Activities
Industry Sectors
- Aerospace
- Full virtual design of Unmanned Air Vehicles
- Aerofoil section design and optimisation
- Military applications
- Automotive
- Exterior aerodynamics of road and performance vehicles
- Cooling air flow optimisation of agricultural, road and performance vehicles
- Engine intake airflow optimisation of road and performance vehicles
- Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning of construction and road vehicles
- Analysis of engine air flows
- Analysis of underbonnet flows in agricultural and road vehicles
- Environment
- Analysis of flows around buildings
- Analysis of ventilation and smoke progression through buildings
- Rotating Machinery
- Centrifugal and axial flow pump design
- Centrifugal and axial flow fan design
- Cooling airflow as applied to motors and motor housings
- Pharmaceutical
- Analysis of airflow through inhalers
- Analysis of the full fluid flow and thermodynamics of Breathe Operated inhalers
- Marine
- Mast profile optimisation
- Submarine flows
- Boat Hydrodynamics
- Electronics
- Cooling of electronic components and packages
- Miscellaneous
- Boiling
- Heat sink design optimisation
- Mixing flows
Specialist Skills
- Aerodynamics
- Bluff body flows
- Boundary layer transition
- Wide knowledge of a range of fluid dynamics obtained as an academic
Education
MBA
Executive Programme, London Business School
- Awarded First Prize at the LBS Entrepreneurship Summer School 2002
Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics
Cambridge University Engineering Department
- Published four articles in major journals
M. Eng. Degree in Aeronautical Engineering
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Additional Information
- Chartered Engineer
- Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
- Beloe Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers
- Member of the EPSRC Mechanical Engineering College (review body for Government funding of research)
- Member of NAFEMS CFD Board (steering group for NAFEMS CFD related issues)
