P. B. Richards, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow, James Watt (South) Building, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK, Fax: +44(0)141 330 5560
Professor Bryan Richards has recently retired from the Mechan Chair at the University of Glasgow, Department
of Aerospace Engineering after a career of 43 years in Aerospace, including a period as Progress in Aerospace Sciences Board
Member and reviewer, and of course, author. Now as Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department, Professor
Richards will continue to be based in Glasgow, as will his part of the journal's editorial office.
Professor Richards has experience
in both experimental and computational aerodynamics. His current research interests lie in computational fluid dynamics and its applications.
Together with two colleagues, Professor Richards headed up the University of Glasgow CFD Laboratory, which has developed a block-structured
code, PMB, which is implemented on a parallel clustered personal computer environment, also developed in-house. The research activities
have involved application to interdisciplinary problems such as flutter simulation and prediction, flight mechanics and flow control
of fixed wing and rotor aircraft, all carried out with national and international partners. He will continue to carry our research with
the members of the Laboratory. Before taking up the Glasgow post, he was involved in the design, development and use of short duration
wind tunnels and fast response instrumentation for hypersonic, re-entry and gas turbine aerodynamic research and development at the von
Karman Institute, Belgium and Imperial College in London. His first experience after graduation from Queen Mary College, London in 1960
was in supersonic transport studies leading to Concord with the Bristol Aeroplane Company, UK. |
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