Trinity College Dublin

Staff Details

Personal Information
Name	Meskell, Craig
Main Department	Mechanical & Manufacturing Eng
College Title	Associate Professor
E-mail	cmeskell@tcd.ie
College Tel	+353 1 896 1455
Web	http://www.mme.tcd.ie/


Biography
Dr. Craig Meskell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in Trinity College, Dublin. His primary degree is in Aeronautical Engineering from QUB. He earned his PhD for work on flow-induced vibration in heat exchanger tube bundles. He has also been a Visiting Professor at McMaster University. His technical expertise is in the area of unsteady fluid mechanics, especially when coupled with noise, vibration or structural interaction. For nearly a decade, he has focussed his work almost exclusively on power generating and energy conversion applications, having been active in the field of aircraft noise at a European level. His favourite colour is red Recent and ongoing projects include: flow-induced vibration in nuclear steam generators; flow-induced noise in gas heat exchangers; system identification for wave energy conversion devices; modelling of flow-induced vibration in large, commercial scale wind turbines; and energy efficiency through optimized compressed air use in industrial scale manufacturing sites. Support for his work on energy devices has come from SFI, IRCSET, EI, HEA.

Description of Research Interests

Unsteady fluid mechanics in power generation applications; Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing; Fluid induced vibration and noise;


Research Interests

Aerodynamics	Aeroelasticity	Applied thermodynamics and energy	Computational Fluid Dynamics
Energy Conservation	Flow Control	Fluid Dynamics	Fluid Mechanics
Fluids and vibration	Industrial Processes, Energy Use	Marine Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Mechanics	Nuclear Reactor Technology	Nuclear Technology	Ocean and Ocean Energy Systems
Tidal and Wave Energy	Vibration and Accoustic Engineering	Wind, Wind Energy Engineering


Research Projects

Project title	System Identification for a wave energy conversion devices
Summary
Funding Agency	Wavebob and IRCSET
Programme	EPS
Type of Project
Date from	Oct 2010
Date to	Sept 2013
Person Months

Project title	Flow-induced vibration of nuclear steam generators
Summary
Funding Agency
Programme
Type of Project
Date from	Oct 2011
Date to	Sept 2015
Person Months

Project title	Investigation of flow-induced vibration of horizontal axis wind turbines
Summary
Funding Agency	EU
Programme	ITN SYSWIND
Type of Project
Date from	Oct 2010
Date to	Sept 2013
Person Months

Project title	Leak detection in compressed air systems by acoustic array techniques
Summary
Funding Agency	Intel and IRCSET
Programme	EPS
Type of Project
Date from	Oct 2010
Date to	Sept 2012
Person Months

Project title	Energy efficiency in industrial compressed air systems
Summary	Part of the I2E2 competence centre activity
Funding Agency	Enterprise Ireland/IDA
Programme	Competence Centre
Type of Project
Date from	Apr 2009
Date to	Dec 2012
Person Months

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Publications

Peer Reviewed

C. Meskell, A Decrement Method for Quantifying Nonlinear and Linear Damping in Multidegree of Freedom Systems, ISRN Mechanical Engineering, 2011 (2011), (659484), 2011 TARA - Full Text DOI
S.L. Finnegan, P. Oshkai & C. Meskell, Experimental Methodology for Aeroacoustic Source Localisation in Ducted Flows with Complex Geometry, 16th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference 2010, 31st AIAA Aeroacoustics Conference, 2010, 2010, pp1157 - 1169
S.L. Finnegan, C. Meskell & P. Oshkai, Aeroacoustic source distribution around four cylinders orientated in a square, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM, ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting Collocated with 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, FEDSM2010, 2010, 3, 2010, pp735 - 744
J. Mahon, P. Cheeran & C. Meskell, Spanwise correlation of surface pressure fluctuations in heat exchanger tube arrays, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM, ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting Collocated with 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, FEDSM2010, 2010, 3, 2010, pp533 - 542
Finnegan, SL, Meskell, C, Ziada, S, Experimental Investigation of the Acoustic Power Around Two Tandem Cylinders, JOURNAL OF PRESSURE VESSEL TECHNOLOGY-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME, 132, 2010 DOI
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