Senior CDT Fellow, Gas Turbine Aerodynamics
College Lecturer, Churchill College
Whittle Laboratory
Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 0DY
Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 0DY
Email:
amy21 [ AT ] cam [ DOT ] ac [ DOT ] uk
Office Phone:
+44(0)1223 760551
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Biography:
Dr Young completed her PhD in 2012 on the subject of Tip-Clearance Effects in Axial Compressors. She then went on to be the Maudslay-Butler Research Fellow at Pembroke College, and is now a Senior Research Associate at the Whittle Laboratory. Dr Young undertakes research at the Whittle Laboratory in two areas: axial compressors and tidal power generation.
Departments and Institutes
Research Interests
Unsteady flows in axial compressors.
Tidal power generation.
Tidal stream turbulence measurements.
Teaching
Current:
- CDT MRes GTA3 Advanced Experimental Methods
- CDT MRes MP2 Compressor Mini Project
- Part IA Mechanics, Structures and Thermofluids supervision
Previous:
- Energy Technology MPhil Project supervision
- Energy Technology MPhil Tidal power lecturing
- Part IIB (MEng) Project supervision
- 3A3 (Fluid Mechanics II) supervision
- 3A5 (Thermodynamics and Power Generation) supervision
- Part 1B Thermofluid Mechanics supervision
- Part 1B Mathematics supervision
- Part IIA Turboexpander Project demonstration
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Collaborators
Key Publications
“Stall Warning by Blade Pressure Signature Analysis”
Young, A., Day, I. and Pullan, G., 2011
Presented at ASME Turbo Expo, Vancouver, Canada. GT2011-45850.
Accepted for publication in ASME Journal of Turbomachinery.
Winner of Turbomachinery Committee Best Paper Award and Rolls-Royce Howse and Ruffles Award for Best Doctorate Paper.
“Origins and Structure of Spike-Type Rotating Stall”.
Pullan, G., Young, A., Day, I., Greitzer, E. and Spakovszky, Z.
Presented at ASME Turbo Expo 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark. GT2012-68707.
Accepted for publication in ASME Journal of Turbomachinery.
Winner of ASME Gas Turbine Award, and Turbomachinery Best Paper Award.