Luke Doherty
INTRODUCTION
Dr Luke Doherty has been appointed as a Departmental Lecturer in High Speed Flows, continuing to lend his extensive experience in experimental hypersonic aerodynamics to the department. He graduated in 2008 from The University of Queensland, Australia with Bachelor of Engineering (Hons I) and Bachelor of Science degrees. He then completed his doctorate at the same university within the Centre for Hypersonics, measuring aerodynamic forces on an airframe integrated scramjet engine in the T4 Shock Tunnel Facility.
Joining the Oxford Thermofluids Institute in 2014 as a post-doctoral researcher, and then as a Senior Researcher in 2018, he has spent the last 8 years developing, commissioning and managing the Oxford High Speed Facilities – the T6 Stalker Tunnel, the High Density Tunnel and, more recently, the Low Density Tunnel; unique facilities which have placed Oxford at the forefront of high-speed experimental research.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Short duration facility development (operation and diagnostics)
Aerodynamic force measurement techniques
Magnetic suspension and balance systems
Rarefied flows and satellite demise re-entry aerothermodynamics
High-speed inlet performance
RESEARCH GROUPS AND COLLABORATIONS
Thermal Propulsion Systems Research Group
Hypersonics Research Group
PUBLICATIONS
https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/luke-doherty/