Craig Meskell
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
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.
Research Interest
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
Publications
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Meskell, C., Fitzpatrick, J. and Rice, H., Application of force-state mapping to a non-linear fluid-elastic system, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 15, (1), 2001, p75 - 85
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Meskell, C., FItzpatrick, J.A.,, Errors in Parameter Estimates from the Force State Mapping Technique for Free Response due to Phase Distortion, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 252 , (5), 2002, p967-974
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Sweeney C, Meskell C, Fast numerical simulation of vortex shedding in tube arrays using a discrete vortex method, Journal of Fluids and Structures , 18, (5), 2003, p501 - 512
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Jordan P, Fitzpatrick JA, Meskell C, Beampattern control of a microphone array to minimize secondary source contamination, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, (4), 2003, p1920 - 1925
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J. Keays and C. Meskell, A study of the behaviour of a single-bladed waste-water pump, Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, 220, (2), 2006, p79 - 87
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Meskell,C., Fitzpatrick,J.A., Investigation of the Nonlinear Behaviour of Damping Controlled Fluid-elastic Instability in a Normal Triangular Tube Array, Journal of Fluids & Structures, 18, (5), 2003, p573 - 593
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Craig Meskell, A decrement method for quantifying nonlinear and linear, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 296, 2006, p643 - 649
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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
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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
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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
