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Dr Alan Packwood

Senior Tutor

Qualifications: BSc(Bath), PhD(Brist), CEng, MIMechE

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Phone: Work: 01483 68 9686
Room no: 13A AA 03

Further information

Research Interests

  • Aerodynamics of road vehicles, wings and synthetic jets
  • CFD modelling of flow in the built environment.
  • Sub-marine vehicle hydrodynamics.

Publications

Highlights

  • Packwood AR. (2000) 'Flow through porous fences in thick boundary layers: comparisons between laboratory and numerical experiments'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS, 88 (1), pp. 75-90.
    doi: 10.1016/S0167-6105(00)00025-8
  • HUGGINS A, PACKWOOD A. (1995) 'Wind tunnel experiments on a fully appended laminar flow submersible for oceanographic survey'. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD Ocean Engineering, 22 (2), pp. 207-221.
    doi: 10.1016/0029-8018(94)00005-0
  • PACKWOOD AR. (1983) 'THE INFLUENCE OF BEACH POROSITY ON WAVE UPRUSH AND BACKWASH'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV COASTAL ENGINEERING, 7 (1), pp. 29-40.
    doi: 10.1016/0378-3839(83)90025-X

Journal articles

  • Fothergill CE, Roberts PT, Packwood AR. (2002) 'Flow and dispersion around storage tanks. A comparison between numerical and wind tunnel simulations'. TECHNO-PRESS WIND AND STRUCTURES, 5 (2-4), pp. 89-100.
  • Packwood AR. (2000) 'Flow through porous fences in thick boundary layers: comparisons between laboratory and numerical experiments'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV JOURNAL OF WIND ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL AERODYNAMICS, 88 (1), pp. 75-90.
    doi: 10.1016/S0167-6105(00)00025-8
  • HUGGINS A, PACKWOOD A. (1995) 'Wind tunnel experiments on a fully appended laminar flow submersible for oceanographic survey'. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD Ocean Engineering, 22 (2), pp. 207-221.
    doi: 10.1016/0029-8018(94)00005-0
  • PACKWOOD AR, HUGGINS A. (1994) 'AFTERBODY SHAPING AND TRANSITION PREDICTION FOR A LAMINAR-FLOW UNDERWATER VEHICLE'. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD OCEAN ENGINEERING, 21 (5), pp. 445-459.
    doi: 10.1016/0029-8018(94)90018-3
  • HUGGINS A, PACKWOOD AR. (1994) 'THE OPTIMUM DIMENSIONS FOR A LONG-RANGE, AUTONOMOUS, DEEP-DIVING, UNDERWATER VEHICLE FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH'. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD OCEAN ENGINEERING, 21 (1), pp. 45-56.
    doi: 10.1016/0029-8018(94)90028-0
  • PACKWOOD AR. (1990) 'PERFORMANCE OF SEGMENTED SWEPT AND UNSWEPT CABLE FAIRINGS AT LOW REYNOLDS-NUMBERS'. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD OCEAN ENGINEERING, 17 (4), pp. 393-407.
    doi: 10.1016/0029-8018(90)90031-Z
  • THORPE SA, HALL AJ, PACKWOOD AR, STUBBS AR. (1985) 'THE USE OF A TOWED SIDE-SCAN SONAR TO INVESTIGATE PROCESSES NEAR THE SEA-SURFACE'. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH, 4 (5), pp. 597-&.
    doi: 10.1016/0278-4343(85)90014-7
  • PACKWOOD AR. (1983) 'THE INFLUENCE OF BEACH POROSITY ON WAVE UPRUSH AND BACKWASH'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV COASTAL ENGINEERING, 7 (1), pp. 29-40.
    doi: 10.1016/0378-3839(83)90025-X
  • PACKWOOD AR, PEREGRINE DH. (1980) 'PROPAGATION OF SOLITARY WAVES AND BORES OVER A POROUS BED'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV COASTAL ENGINEERING, 3 (3), pp. 221-242.

Conference papers

  • COLLAR PG, PACKWOOD AR, BLANE DD. (1990) 'AUTOSUB - THE NERC COMMUNITY RESEARCH-PROJECT TO DEVELOP AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES FOR MARINE SCIENCE IN THE DEEP OCEAN'. SPEARHEAD EXHIBITIONS LTD OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 90, VOL 1, BRIGHTON, ENGLAND: OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 90, pp. 61-76.

Teaching

Thermo-Fluids at Levels 1 and 2

Design Make Evaluate at Level 1

Departmental Duties

Programme Director Mechanical & Medical Engineering

Academic Liaison Officer for the IMechE

Affiliations

Trustee for Guildford BESOM a local Christian charity to enable Christians to give to the poor and needy in the local community.

Member of Guildford Baptist Church

Current Research Programmes

  • Aerodynamics of road vehicles
  • Synthetic jets
  • Flow in the built environment.
  • Atmospheric flow through porous structures using CFD and scale wind-tunnel modelling.
  • Performance of faired tow-cables.
  • Drag of small AUV's with sensor ports.
  • Design of small towed undulating vehicles and upper ocean moored instrument platforms.
  • Performance of low-drag, laminar-flow hull forms for long-range oceanographic survey AUV's.