Michael Fairweather

Michael Fairweather graduated from the University of Leeds with a first degree in fuel and combustion science and a Ph.D. degree on the theoretical prediction of convective heat transfer from flames. He then worked for British Gas for 17 years, where he was involved mainly in safety and gas utilization research, and he subsequently joined the School of Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering at the University of Leeds, where he now holds a Chair in thermofluids and combustion. He has been engaged in research in the areas of fluid dynamics, combustion, heat transfer and thermodynamics for more than 30 years, with his primary interest being the development of computational fluid dynamic techniques and their application to chemical and process engineering problems, including the modeling and simulation of turbulent, reacting, and multiphase flows. He is also involved in research on numerical solution strategies and reduced chemical kinetic schemes for implementation within a CFD framework, as well as in experimental work aimed at providing data for model formulation and validation. He has authored more than 175 refereed journal and conference papers, and he has served as the Chair of the Institute of Physics, Combustion Physics Group, and as a Member of the Combustion Institute (British Section) Committee. In 2006, he received, with his coauthors, the Distinguished Paper Award on Reaction Kinetics for a paper presented at the Twenty-First International Symposium on Combustion, and in 2010, he was the recipient of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Frank Lees Medal for a paper, written with his coauthors, presented at Hazards XXI, Process Safety and Environmental Protection.

Biography Updated on 18 June 2010

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