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Professor Dame Ann Dowling, DBE FRS FREng

Professor Dame Ann Dowling DBE FRS FREng

Head of the Department of Engineering

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Chairman of the University Gas Turbine Partnership with Rolls-Royce

Fellow of Sidney Sussex College

Departments and Institutes

Fluids:

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Subject groups/Research projects

Experiments in Turbulent Combustion:
Acoustics:
Silent Aircraft Initiative:

Research Interests

Professor Dowling's research is primarily in the fields of combustion, acoustics and vibration and is aimed at low-emission combustion and quiet vehicles. She is one of the founders of the Energy Efficient Cities initiative in Cambridge and was the UK lead of the Silent Aircraft Initiative, a collaboration between researchers at Cambridge and MIT.  

 

Biography:

Ann Dowling is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering and is a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and of the French Academy of Sciences.  She has an Honorary ScD degree from Trinity College Dublin. 

Ann has served on a number industry and government advisory committees and and chaired the Royal Society/Royal Academy of Engineering study on nanotechnology. She is currently Chair of Main Panel B: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics in the Research Excellence Framework (REF2014).

Professor Dowling has held visiting posts at MIT (Jerome C Hunsaker Visiting Professor, 1999) and at Caltech (Moore Distinguished Scholar 2001).

She was  appointed CBE by the Queen for services to Mechanical Engineering in 2002, and DBE for services to Science in 2007.

Teaching

4A15 Aeroacoustics

Keywords

  • Combustion
  • Acoustics
  • Flow Instability
  • Energy, transport and urban infrastructure
  • Aircraft noise
  • Combustion instability/thermoacoustics
  • Jet and wind turbine noise
  • Combustion noise
Groups within the Division
Energy
Fluids
Turbomachinery
Information for Students

Fourth Year Projects

The administrative point for this is ISO-17 in the Hopkinson Laboratory. All reports should be handed in to Kate Graham here. Report covers/lab books will be available from her or Mick Underwood (Chief Technician, Hopkinson Lab).

Hand in point for 3rd Year Lab reports/coursework

Lab reports and coursework for third year labs/modules should be handed in to Mrs Sue Ball, BE2-03.