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Paul Tucker
Fellow

Professor Paul G Tucker

Professorial Fellow; Professorial Fellow in Engineering

Contact
pgt23@cam.ac.uk⁠ 01223 337582⁠
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Degrees and honours

  • DPhil, Sussex University,
  • BEng(Hons), CNAA,
  • FIMechE, Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers,
  • Associate Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
  • MA (Cantab)

Awards and prizes

  • NCR Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement
  • ASME Best Paper Award 2013 - Turbomachinery committee

Research interests

Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, Paul worked was a Professor in the Civil and Computational Engineering Centre at the University of Swansea leading aerospace. Before to this he was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering at the University of Warwick.  He is an Associate Editor of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA) Journal. Paul gained his PhD at what was formerly the Rolls-Royce Centre at the University of Sussex. He has been a visiting a researcher at NASA Langley and Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle. For several years, through a Royal Society Industry Fellowship Paul spent 40 per cent of his time at Rolls-Royce plc in a computational methods development group.

Authored work

  • Paul has nearly 300 papers, book chapters and technical reports. A list of publications can be found on the website.

     

    Books

    Tucker P. G. 2016. Advanced computational fluid and aerodynamics, Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 9781107428836.

     

    Tucker P. G. and J. DeBonis, 2014 Eds.  Aerodynamics, Computers and the Environment, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences), Vol. 372, pp 1-5.

     

    Tucker P. G. 2013. Unsteady computational fluid dynamics in aeronautics, Springer, ISBN 978-94-007-7048-5.

     

    Tucker P. G. 2001. Computation of unsteady internal flows, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4615-1439-8.

Subject
Engineering