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Craig White graduated from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Strathclyde with a 1st class BEng (Hons) degree in 2009. He started his PhD at the end of that year, during which he was awarded the prestigious James Weir Postgraduate Scholarship. In 2010, he participated in a month-long academic visit to the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His doctoral work led to numerous publications covering microscale flows, hypersonics, and orbital dynamics, culminating in a thesis titled 'Benchmarking, Development and Applications of an Open Source DSMC Solver' completed in early 2013. After completing his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Strathclyde, focusing on the EU ABLAMOD FP7 collaboration. This program aimed to enhance the understanding and modeling of ablative materials used in atmospheric re-entry heat shield technologies. In December 2014, Craig joined the Aerospace Sciences Division at the University of Glasgow as a lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2022. His research interests include fluid dynamics, specifically the simulation of gas flows using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method and experimental work with vacuum chambers. He is particularly focused on modifying and extending the free open source dsmcFoam code, and he is also interested in incorporating machine learning techniques into continuum computational fluid dynamics.
University of Glasgow • Glasgow, Scotland
Joined the Aerospace Sciences Division, focusing on fluid dynamics and gas flows.