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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.

Research Tags

Aeroelasticity Fluid Dynamics Fluids and vibration Industrial Processes, Energy Use Nuclear Reactor Technology Tidal and Wave Energy Vibration and Accoustic Engineering Wind, Wind Energy Engineering

Research Projects

Project Title

Modelling acoustic resonance in heat exchangers

From

Oct 2010

Sept 2014

Summary

Heat exchangers can exhibit periodic vortex shedding. If the fluid is gas flow, then the vortex shedding may excite an acoustic duct mode and hence cause acoustic resonance. The acoustic sources are distributed and diffuse. The onset, and lock-in behaviour depends on the non-linear interaction between the (linear) acoustic field and the fluid dynamics. This project uses unsteady CFD to investigate the spatial and temporal distribution of acoustic sources.

Project Title

System Identification for a wave energy conversion devices

From

Oct 2010

Sept 2014

Summary

The dynamics a self reacting wave energy converter, especially as it exhibits parametric roll/pitch, are modelled using a non-linear panel method. The response obtained is used to identify a simplified 7 degree of freedom lumped parameter model.

Funding Agency

Wavebob and IRCSET

Programme

EPS

Project Title

Flow-induced vibration of nuclear steam generators

From

Oct 2011

Sept 2015

Summary

Nuclear power plant depends on large heat exchangers, called steam generators, to transfer the heat from the reactor to steam, so that electricity can be generated at the turbines. These steam generators are effective bundles of long, thin (and hence flexible) tubes subject to flow perpendicular to their axes. This gives rise to the possibility of flow-induced vibration. In this project we are investigating a recently discovered phenomenon in tube arrays, called bi-stable flow. We are focussing on a tube bundle arrange in a parallel triangular array pattern with a pitch ratio of 1.375 as this is typical of what is used in CANDU reactors.

Funding Agency

HEA

Project Title

Investigation of flow-induced vibration of horizontal axis wind turbines

From

Oct 2010

Sept 2014

Summary

Industrial scale wind turbines must be able to withstand occasional extreme winds. This includes gusts which cause a rapid change in wind direction. This will mean that the blades are now are very high, even reflexive, angles of incidence to the flow, and so may be considered as bluff bodies, rather than streamlined lifting surfaces. In this project, we investigate the possibility of wind turbine blade sections experiencing vortex shedding, and vortex shedding lock-in due to structural motion, at high angles of attack. The simulated data is used to obtain a simple non-linear wake model which is coupled to the motion of the structure.

Funding Agency

Programme

ITN SYSWIND

Publications and other Research Outputs

Bellec, Morgane, Gibson, Lee, Meskell, Craig, Performance of a Closed Cycle Power Takeoff for a Shore-Based Wave Energy Device, Applied Sciences, 13, (11), 2023, p6377 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI

Petr Eret and Craig Meskell, Microphone Arrays as a Leakage Detection Tool in Industrial Compressed Air Systems, Advances in Acoustics and Vibration, 2012, 2012, p10 pages , Journal Article, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI URL

C. Meskell, A Decrement Method for Quantifying Nonlinear and Linear Damping in Multidegree of Freedom Systems, ISRN Mechanical Engineering, 2011 (2011), (659484), 2011, Journal Article, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI

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, Journal Article, PUBLISHED DOI

Mahon, J & Meskell, C., Interaction between acoustic resonance and fluidelastic instability in a normal triangular tube array, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME, 131, 2009, p0113031-0113037 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED DOI

Mahon, J., Meskell, C., Surface pressure distribution survey in normal triangular tube arrays , Journal of Fluids and Structures, 25, (8), 2009, p1348-1368 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED

Meskell, C., A new model for damping controlled fluidelastic instability in heat exchanger tube arrays , Proc. IMechE Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 223, (4), 2009, p361-368 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI

Mahon, J., Meskell, C., Investigation of the underlying cause of the interaction between acoustic resonance and fluidelastic instability in normal triangular tube arrays , Journal of Sound and Vibration, 324, (1-2), 2009, p91-106 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED DOI

P Eret & C Meskell, A practical approach to parameter identification for a lightly damped, weakly nonlinear system, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 310, 2008, p829 - 844, Journal Article, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI

Craig Meskell, A decrement method for quantifying nonlinear and linear, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 296, 2006, p643 - 649, Journal Article, PUBLISHED DOI

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C. Meskell & D. Cox, A three dimensional particle-in-cell solver, Euromech Colloquim 454 LES,CVS and vortex methods, 14-16 April, edited by K. Schneider, M. Farge, and J. Ferziger , 2004, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

Cox, D. & Meskell, On a three dimensional vortex particle method for modelling complex flows., 6th Annual Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium, IEI, 2003, pp116 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

Sweeney, C & Meskell, C., vortex method using a cloud-in-element technique, 4th Annual Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium, IEI, 2000, pp162-, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

Meskell, C. , Frequency analysis in non-linear systems, Frekvensanalys, SVIB, 1997, pp20 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

Southern, R. & Meskell, C. , Preliminary Application of Principal Component Analysis to a Microchip Test Process for Mixed Signal/Radio Frequency Components, Advances in Process Analytics and Control Technology, CPACT, 2003, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

W. Chaiworapuek, H.R. Rice, C.Meskell, C. O'Reilly, Numerical simualtion of a subsonic coaxial round jet, Joint Conference of The Association for Compuational Mechanics in Engineering and The Irish Society for Scientific and Engineering Computation, Belfast, April 2006, edited by Cecil G. Armstrong , Queen's University Belfast, 2006, pp63 - 66, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

C. Meskell and B. Selent, Numerical Simulation of Vortex Shedding in Normal Triangular Tube Arrays, Joint Conference of The Association for Compuational Mechanics in Engineering and The Irish Society for Scientific and Engineering Computation, Belfast, April 2006, edited by Cecil G. Armstrong , Queen's University Belfast, 2006, pp67 - 70, Notes: [ISBN: 0853898944], Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

R.A.K. Sanches, C. Meskell, Numerical Evaluation of Force Coefficients for Analysis of Flow Induced Vibration in Tube Arrays, Joint Conference of The Association for Compuational Mechanics in Engineering and The Irish Society for Scientific and Engineering Computation, Belfast, April 2006, edited by Cecil G. Armstrong , Queen's University Belfast, 2006, pp79 - 82, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

G.E. O Donnell, C. Meskell, S. Nolan, Technology Innovation for Irish Manufacturing and Energy Competitiveness, 2012, Working Paper, PUBLISHED

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

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

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Dr. Craig Meskell

Dr. Craig Meskell

Associate Professor (Mechanical, Manuf & Biomedical Eng)

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