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Dr. Charles Stuart

Assistant Professor (Mechanical, Manuf & Biomedical Eng)
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Dr. Charles Stuart

Assistant Professor (Mechanical, Manuf & Biomedical Eng)
PARSONS BUILDING


  Aerodynamics   HYDROGEN   Low carbon transportation   Sustainable aviation   Turbomachinery
Project Title
 Centrifugal Compressor Surge Inception
From
01/12/2021
To
30/11/2025
Summary
The details of this project are subject to a commercial non-disclosure agreement.
Funding Agency
Industry funded - Cummins
Project Title
 ÉirPlANE (Éire's Plan for Aviation Net-zero Emissions)
From
01/01/2023
To
30/04/2025
Summary
Air travel connects the world efficiently, safely and quickly. Islands such as Ireland are in a unique position where there is no alternative to air travel in the context of European interconnectivity targets, and Ireland also a global player in the aviation industry. Aviation is faced with possibly the most difficult decarbonisation challenge of all sectors for 2050, in part because of the high energy densities needed for commercial flights (meaning electrification with batteries is not possible), but also because change is difficult in a high-value, safety critical industry. The aviation problem is a complex mix of immature new technologies, complicated supply chains and insufficient scientific direction for the enormous industry investments required. Ireland needs to take a leading role in sustainable aviation. A wide variety of stakeholders must engage in and invest heavily in the transition. By engaging with them, the proposed project will develop a techno-economic roadmap for making the first significant step towards zero-carbon aviation. This will combine validated physics-based models of various future zero-carbon aircraft with state-of-the-art fleet scheduling techniques to evaluate the feasibility of different aircraft concepts and fuels from technical and business perspectives, relying on real-world flight and operational data from our societal impact partners, Ryanair. These fleet-wide considerations will exploit the interdependency of aircraft design and mission scheduling to minimize climate impact and cost. Furthermore, the advanced modelling framework will enable characterisation of the ability to supply power-to-liquid sustainable aviation fuel (P2L SAF) and liquified green hydrogen (LH2) in the context of Ireland"s renewable energy plans. By combining the technical work with an understanding of the whole sector, we will ensure that the project generates pragmatic, data driven solutions to the challenge of decarbonising aviation for Ireland.
Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Programme
National Challenge Fund: 2050 Challenge
Project Title
 Characterising short-haul aviation decarbonisation pathways
From
30/10/2024
To
30/09/2028
Summary
Funding Agency
Industry funded - Boeing / Aurora Flight Sciences
Project Type
PhD

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
German Medium Basic Basic
Details Date From Date To
Member of AIAA Sustainability Integration and Outreach Committee 2025
Member of All Ireland Scholarships Executive Committee 2024
Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 2023
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) 2020
Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2019
Alex Kennedy & Charles Stuart, Evaluation of the GEKO Turbulence Model for Whole Aircraft Drag Prediction, AIAA SCITECH Forum & Exposition, Orlando, USA, 06/01/25 - 10/01/25, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Mohamed Awde & Charles Stuart, Characterizing the Full Climate Impact of Individual Real-World Flights Using a Linear Temperature Response Model, Aerospace, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Naoise Barry, Conor Gallagher, Steven Fitzgerald and Charles J. Stuart, Optimising for Sustainability as an Objective Function Within Airline Fleet Scheduling: An Ireland-EU Mobility Case Study, AIAA AVIATION, Las Vegas, USA, 29/07/24 - 02/08/24, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Conor Gallagher, Charles J. Stuart and Stephen Spence, Advanced Propulsion System Evaluation for Real-World Short-Haul Operations: Open Rotor vs. UHBPR Turbofan, AIAA AVIATION, Las Vegas, USA, 29/07/24 - 02/08/24, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Conor Gallagher, Charles Stuart, Stephen Spence, Liquid Hydrogen and Synthetic Sustainable Aviation Fuel: A European Airline Case Study, GPPS Chania24, Chania, Greece, September 4-6 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Cillian Thomas, Stephen Spence, Charles Stuart, Sandeep Jella, Marc Füri, Gilles Bourque, The Effect of Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms on the Flame Transfer Function, GPPS Chania24, Chania, Greece, September 4-6, 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Yiming Liu, Stephen Spence, John Horsley, Stuart Mann, Charles Stuart, Insights Into Turbocharger Centrifugal Compressor Stability Using High-Fidelity CFD and a Novel Impeller Diffusion Factor, ASME Turbo Expo 2024: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, London, UK, June 24"28, 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Naoise Barry , Conor Gallagher , Steven Fitzgerald , Charles Stuart, CHARACTERISING THE ROLE OF FLEET RENEWAL ON THE PATHWAY TO 2050: A EUROPEAN AIRLINE CASE STUDY, ICAS Congress 2024, Florence, Italy, September 9 - 13, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Heather Murphy , Conor Gallagher , Charles Stuart , Stephen Spence & Steven Fitzgerald, EVALUATION AND SIMULATION OF PARALLEL HYBRID ELECTRIC PROPULSION WITH REAL FLIGHT DATA, ICAS Congress 2024, Florence, Italy, September 9-13, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Yiming Liu, Stephen Spence, John Horsley, Stuart Mann , Charles Stuart, INSIGHTS INTO TURBOCHARGER CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR STABILITY USING HIGH-FIDELITY CFD AND A NOVEL IMPELLER DIFFUSION FACTOR, ASME Turbo Expo 2024, London, UK, June 24-28 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
  

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Award Date
Queen's Merit Award in recognition of achieving Associate Fellowship of HEA 2020
ASME IGTI Young Engineer Travel Award 2018
Nominated for Best Paper Award - IGTI Turbomachinery Committee 2018
Nominated for Best Paper Award - IGTI Turbomachinery Committee 2017
Winner of ABB 110 Years of Turbocharging White Paper Competition 2015
Emily Sarah Montgomery Travel Award 2015
1st place in QUB Sir Bernard Crossland Presentation Competition (3rd in All Ireland final) 2014
Dunville Studentship in support of PhD project (Centrifugal Compressor Aerodynamics) 2013
Sir Bernard Crossland Prize for highest average mark in Stage 4 MEng Mechanical Engineering 2013
Mark Sweeney Prize for highest average mark across Energy Theme Modules in Stage 4 MEng 2013
Best Stage 4 Project (Formula Student - Drive-by-Wire throttle system design and testing, vehicle modelling) 2013
NACCO Bursary for contributions to SAE Paper 2013-01-0817 (Forklift truck torque converter study) 2012
Harry Ferguson Prize for best Stage 3 Engineering Design Project 2012
McCormick Prize for best Stage 3 Project (Formula Student - Gearbox Optimisation and Acceleration Run Modelling) 2012
Foundation Scholarship for highest average mark in Stage 3 MEng Mechanical Engineering 2012
Foundation Scholarship for highest average mark in Stage 2 MEng Mechanical Engineering 2011
IMechE award and Foundation Scholarship for highest average mark in Stage 1 MEng Mechanical Engineering 2010
Caterpillar / FG Wilson scholarship for having at least three A grades at A-Level and having a Stage 1 average mark of at least 60% 2009
All Ireland Scholarship 2009