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Technologie / CARPENTER, PETER W.

P.W.Carpenter

Position

Head of Division of Civil and Mechanical Engineering,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.

Professional Affiliations :
FIMechE
Senior Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Physical Society, AUT.

Thèmes de recherche

- Theoretical and Experimental Fluid Dynamics
Turbulence
Laminar-turbulent transition
Compressible flow
Rotating flows

- Flow/Structure Interaction

- Acoustics and Aeroacoustics

- Computational Fluid Dynamics
Velocity-vorticity methods
Discrete-vortex methods
Boundary-element methods

- Biomechanics
Pressure pulse propagation in the human cerebro-spinal-fluid system

- Industrial Heat and Mass Transfer

Teaching interests :
Fluid Mechanics. Thermodynamics. Structural Mechanics. Heat & Mass Transfer. Tribology. Mathematics. Numerical and Computational Methods.

Prix et récompenses

Publications

Book

E.L. Houghton & P.W. CARPENTER 1993, Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, 4th Edition, London: Edward Arnold.

E.L. Houghton & P.W. CARPENTER 2002, Aerodynamics for Engineering Students, 5th Edition, Oxford: Elsevier Science.

Edited Books

P.W. CARPENTER & T.J. Pedley (Eds) 2002
Flow past highly compliant boundaries and in collapsible tubes. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Chapters in Books

P.W. CARPENTER & T.J. Pedley 2002
Chapter 1. Introduction. In Flow past highly compliant boundaries and in collapsible tubes, P.W. Carpenter & T.J. Pedley (Eds) Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 1.1-1.10.

P.W. CARPENTER & P.K. Sen 2002
Chapter 7. Propagation of waves across junctions between rigid and compliant walls. In Flow past highly compliant boundaries and in collapsible tubes, P.W. Carpenter & T.J. Pedley (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 7.1-7.20.

P.W. CARPENTER, P.J. Thomas & M. Nagata 2002
Chapter 8. Rotating flows over compliant walls. In Flow past highly compliant boundaries and in collapsible tubes, P.W. Carpenter & T.J. Pedley (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 8.1-8.22.

V.V. Babenko & P.W. CARPENTER 2002
Chapter 13. Dolphin hydrodynamics. In Flow past highly compliant boundaries and in collapsible tubes, P.W. Carpenter & T.J. Pedley (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 31.1-13.31.