Professor Jeremy Astley
Professor of Computational Acoustics
Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics Group
ISVR – Institute of Sound and Vibration Research
University of Southampton, UK
http://www.isvr.soton.ac.uk/STAFF/staff45.htm
Jeremy Astley joined the Institute of Sound and Vibration in March 2001
as Professor of Computational Acoustics. He is director of the
Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Gas Turbine Noise and
chairperson of the Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics Group, the largest of
four research groups at ISVR. Prof Astley graduated in Mathematics from
the University of Canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand and completed
a PhD in mathematics at Bristol University in 1973. Since then he has
held academic positions at the University of Nottingham, the University
of Missouri-Rolla, and the University of Canterbury. He has also held
visiting fellowships at the Universities of Hull and Durham. He is a
fellow the Royal Society of New Zealand and of the Institution of
Professional Engineers of New Zealand and the recipient of a Doctorate
of Engineering in 2000 for contributions to Finite Elements in
Acoustics.
Prof
Astley is best known for his research on special finite elements for
acoustics. This work began with the application of FE methods to flow
acoustics of aero engine ducts in the in the late 1970s This was an
entirely new area at the time and led to the development of new finite
element methods for treating unbounded problems in flow acoustics and
in general acoustics. Prof Astley is particularly well known for his
work on infinite elements and more recently for the development of more
general wave-based numerical schemes. Prof Astley serves on the
editorial board of a number of leading journals which include the
‘International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering’ and
‘Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering’. He is UK
representative on the CEAS Aero-acoustics Committee, and sits on the
Scientific Committee of the ‘X2 and X3 Noise Clusters’ which are funded
by the EC to advise on and coordinate the research agenda in Europe on
aircraft noise. As director of the Rolls-Royce UTC, Prof Astley is
responsible for the activities of 27 academic and research staff and
for an extensive portfolio of research contracts which cover most
aspects of aircraft noise.