Gareth Bennett
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Gareth J. Bennett, B.A., B.A.I., M.Sc., Ph.D., CEng MIEI, Fulbright Alumnus, is an "Associate" Professor in the School of Engineering with research expertise in aeronautics, engineering education and innovative design. He has been elected as the only Irish member of the Aeroacoustics Specialists Committee of the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS-ASC), and is the National Focal Point in Aeroacoustics (and PI) for "X-Noise EV": an FP7 Coordination and Support Action which involves 28 other European partners. Dr. Bennett has worked as a research fellow in the national nuclear facility of Portugal, a national fluid dynamics laboratory in Grenoble, France (LEGI) and in the D-School and School of Engineering in Stanford University where he was a funded Visiting Scholar. In 2016 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Notre Dame and NASA Glenn where he researched innovative low noise solutions to reduce aviation noise for a sustainable environment. Dr. Bennett has secured a total funding of €6.3 million and is PI on 5 EU framework research projects, of which he is coordinating 3 (14 partners), to conduct fundamental research and to develop solutions for quieter aircraft design. After completion of his MSc, Dr. Bennett accepted employment in the industrial sector working, initially as a consultant in Vibration analysis, and subsequently as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer in an American multinational (Thermoking) and subsequently an Irish SME (Odenburg). Dr. Bennett returned to Trinity and was hired as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. In education, Dr. Bennett has designed and coordinates award winning user centred design modules which foster innovation and community engagement in engineering students and is a recipient of the prestigious Provosts Award for Teaching Excellence and the Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching. Dr. Bennett has mentored 5 post-doctoral fellows, has supervised 4 PhD and 4 MSc (research) graduate students to completion and currently has 3 PhD students and 2 post-doctoral fellows in his research group.
Research Interest
Acoustics; Aerodynamics; Aeroelasticity; Aeronautics; Applied thermodynamics and energy; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Design Engineering; Duct Acoustics; Engineering Education; Fan Noise; Fluid Dynamics; Fluids and vibration; Gas Turbines; Heat Transfer; Industrial Design; Machine Design; Mechanical Engineering; Noise pollution, technology; Signal Processing; Turbomachinery; Vibration and Accoustic Engineering
Publications
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Gareth J. Bennett, John Kennedy, Craig Meskell, Michael Carley, Peter Jordan, Henry Rice, Aeroacoustics research in Europe: The CEAS-ASC report on 2013 highlights, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 340, 2015, p39 - 60
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Eleonora Neri, John Kennedy, Gareth J. Bennett, Characterization of Low Noise Technologies Applied to a Full Scale Fuselage Mounted Nose Landing Gear, INTER-NOISE 2015 - 44th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering., San Francisco, CA., USA, 9-12 August 2015, edited by Maling G.,Burroughs C. , The Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA, Inc., 2015, ppV001T01A005; 10 pages
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Kun Zhao, Eleonora Neri, Patrick Okolo, John Kennedy, Gareth J. Bennett, Landing Gear Noise Reduction by Double Jet Air Curtain Configuration, 22nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Florence, Italy, 12-16 July 2015, 2015, pp1-8
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Petr Eret, John Kennedy, Gareth J. Bennett, Effect of noise reducing components on nose landing gear stability for a mid-size aircraft coupled with vortex shedding and freeplay, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 354, 2015, p91 - 103
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Petr Eret, John Kennedy, Paolo Castellini, Francesco Amoroso, Gareth J. Bennett, Experimental observations of an installed-on-pylon contra-rotating open rotor with equal blade number in pusher and tractor configuration, International Journal of Aeroacoustics, 15, (1-2), 2016, p228 - 249
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Kun Zhao, Xi-xiang Yang, Patrick N Okolo, Wei-hua Zhang, Gareth J. Bennett, Use of a plane jet for flow-induced noise reduction of tandem rods, Chinese Physics B, 25, (6), 2016, p064301-1 - 064301-9
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Patrick N. Okolo, Kun Zhao, John Kennedy, and Gareth J. Bennett, Mesh Screen Application for Noise Reduction of Landing Gear Strut, 22nd AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Lyon, France, 30 May 2016, AIAA, 2016
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Ian Davis, Gareth J. Bennett, Spectral, Modal and Coherence Analysis of Sum and Difference Scattering of Narrowband Noise in Turbomachinery, International Journal of Aeroacoustics, 15, (1-2), 2016, p180 - 206
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John Kennedy, Elenora Neri, and Gareth J. Bennett, The Reduction of Main Landing Gear Noise (AIAA 2016-2900), 22nd AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Lyon, France, 30 May 2016, AIAA, 2016
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Kun Zhao, Patrick N Okolo, John Kennedy, and Gareth J Bennett, A study of planar jet flow control and perforated fairings for the reduction of the flow-induced noise of tandem rods in a cross-flow (AIAA2016-2772), 22nd AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Lyon, France, 30 May 2016, edited by AIAA , 2016
