We sincerely welcome Dr. Patrick G. Verdin from School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom, to join the Editorial Board of Recent Progress in Sciences. Dr Patrick Verdin is a Senior Lecturer in Energy Fluid Dynamics at Cranfield University. He has more than 20 years of expertise in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applied to Aerospace (icing), Oil & Gas (multiphase flows, mixing, flow separation, droplet transport, sand erosion), and Renewable Energy (geothermal, wind, tidal). After his MSc gained from the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille (France), Patrick joined Cranfield University and completed a Ph.D. on Aircraft Icing, working on the development of the numerical ice prediction code ICECREMO2. His research work involved a collaboration with the main aircraft companies in the UK: Airbus UK, BAE Systems, Dunlop Aerospace (Meggitt), Rolls-Royce, QinetiQ, and Westland Helicopters (now AgustaWestland). He then carried out post-doctoral studies in multi-phase flows, working on the development of a CFD droplet transport model for ConocoPhillips (USA), in collaboration with Imperial College London, before becoming Research Fellow in 2008. Patrick became successively Senior Research Fellow, Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer. Throughout his academic career, he has been involved in Research and commercial activities at National and International levels. Several of the recent and current projects he has been leading funded research in, include the European programmes SAFUEL (Safer Fuel System), and EMRP I & II (European Metrology Research Programme), UK-funded research on HOSE (Hydrodynamic Oil Sample Extraction), Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Unconventional Geothermal Systems, Oil-Water Slug Flow in Export Pipelines, and Wet Gas Flowmeter Performance by CFD modelling. He has also been recently involved in the development and the CFD verification of an innovative offshore wind turbine, has been working on the design of wind panels, on the design and CFD study of a particle reduction system, and on numerical studies of oxygen masks. He is currently actively involved in the design of an innovative small-scale vertical axis wind turbine. We appreciate Dr. Patrick G. Verdin for his participation and support.
August 13, 2024