Dr. Gareth Bennett

Dr Gareth J Bennett, BA, BAI, MSc, PhD, CEng, Senior Member AIAA, Fulbright Scholar, is an Associate Professor and Director of Research in the School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland. His research interests lie in the domain of sound and vibration with current activities focused on aeroacoustics and acoustic metamaterials. He is an elected member of the Aeroacoustics Specialists Committee of the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS-ASC) and is the National Focal Point in Aeroacoustics in the H2020 Project "ANIMA", previously "X-Noise EV,: Coordination and Support Action involving approximately 30 other European partners from Industry, Research Institutes and Universities. Dr. Bennett has worked as a research fellow in the national nuclear facility of Portugal, a national fluid dynamics laboratory in Grenoble, France (LEGI) and in the D-School and School of Engineering in Stanford University where he was a funded Visiting Scholar. In 2016 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Notre Dame and NASA Glenn where he researched innovative low noise solutions to reduce aviation noise for a sustainable environment. To fund his research Dr. Bennett has won EUR 6.9M (EUR 2.8M-PI) in grants from e.g. the EU Commission, Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Research Council, the Naughton Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, industry and alumni. Dr Bennett has been the Principal Investigator on six EU framework collaborative research projects, of which he has been full project coordinator of three (14 partners), to conduct fundamental research and to develop solutions for quieter aircraft design. His current EU project: INVENTOR is funded within the H2020 Framework package and seeks to reduce airframe noise on approach to landing. After completion of his MSc, Dr. Bennett accepted employment in the industrial sector working, initially as a consultant in Vibration analysis, and subsequently as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer in an American multinational (Thermoking) and subsequently an Irish SME (Odenburg). Dr. Bennett returned to Trinity and was hired as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. In education, Dr. Bennett has designed and coordinates award winning user centred design modules which foster innovation and community engagement in engineering students and is a recipient of the prestigious Provosts Award for Teaching Excellence and the Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching. Dr. Bennett has mentored 6 post-doctoral fellows, has supervised 7 PhD and 4 MSc (research) graduate students to completion and currently has 4 PhD students in his research group. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. In 2020 he was technical co-chair of the AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference.

  Acoustics   Aerodynamics   Aeroelasticity   Aeronautics   Applied thermodynamics and energy   Computational Fluid Dynamics   Design Engineering   Duct Acoustics   Engineering Education   Fan Noise   Fluid Dynamics   Fluids and vibration   Gas Turbines   Heat Transfer   Industrial Design   Machine Design   Mechanical Engineering   Noise pollution, technology   Signal Processing   Turbomachinery   Vibration and Accoustic Engineering

My research engages with the challenge of achieving a sustainable and healthy planet which is the key research goal in Trinity's strategic plan. . To fund my research I have won €6.9M (€2.8M-PI) in grants from e.g. the EU Commission, Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Research Council, the Naughton Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, industry and alumni. My primary research area is within the domain of aeronautics with the objective of producing greener aircraft with lower emissions. My research spans the full breadth from fundamental discovery to applied research with much of my work achieving high test readiness levels (TRL) to be adopted by the aviation industry: Airbus, Dassault, Safran, Rolls Royce, Leonardo to help reduce environmental noise for the good of society. I have collaborated with each of these companies in my research. I am the leading researcher in the country in Aeroacoustics and my reputation within Europe is solidly established: . I am the only Irish representative on the Aeroacoustics Specialists Committee of the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS-ASC) which is the technical committee established by the EU member states' Aerospace Societies to serve and support the scientific and industrial aeroacoustics community in Europe. . I was the national focal point for aeroacoustics in the EU funded Coordination and Support action X-Noise EV. . I have been PI for TCD on five FP7 EU funded collaborative projects: TEENI, WENEMOR, ALLEGRA, ARTIC, X-Noise EV and my sixth: INVENTOR (H2020) has just begun. . In addition, I was full project coordinator for three of them (WENEMOR, ALLEGRA, ARTIC), managing a total budget of €5.4M and 15 partners from universities, research institutes and industry. In 2016 I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Notre Dame and NASA Glenn to research innovative low noise solutions to reduce aviation noise for a sustainable environment. Additional international research fellowships were to Stanford University and the national nuclear research facility in Lisbon and a national research laboratory in France. I have published 38 journal papers (32 since my last promotion), 62 peer-reviewed conference papers (27 at AIAA/CEAS), 2 book chapters, I have edited one special issue in a journal (International Journal of Aeroacoustics, on which I am a member of the editorial board) and I have a patent submitted in China to reduce the noise from high-speed trains. . I have developed research collaborations and have published papers with over 20 international research labs, universities, and industries, including Harvard, Stanford, Bell Labs, Notre Dame, three locations in China, Sherbrooke, KTH, BME Hungary, Roma Tre, Delft, Airbus, Leonardo, the national aerospace institutes of France (ONERA), Germany (DLR), Italy (CIRA), the Netherlands (NLR) and the USA (NASA). . The future direction of my research is in metamaterials: Mechanical and Acoustic. Publications on these topics attract high citations and I currently have a paper accepted in the Nature publication: Scientific Reports, collaborating with Bell Labs. I have funded research that will develop and test novel sound-absorbing metamaterials (liners) on a NASA test rig in the US and I am currently collaborating on other papers with different groups in both Harvard, China, and Japan.