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Yahathugoda, Dr Indika
Title: Dr
First Name: Indika
Surname: Yahathugoda
Position: Lecturer
Telephone: +44 (0)1224 262 336
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Key Duties and Responsibilities

Responsible forcourse development and teaching of following modules;

  • EN1701– Introduction to Design Materials and Manufacture (Module Coordinator)
  • EN1702– Thermofluids 1 (Module Coordinator)
  • ENS005 – 1st Year Personal Tutor
  • 1st Year Induction and Activity Week – Coordinator
  • EN2700– Mechanical Engineering Design 2
  • EN3500 – Signal Acquisition, Instrumentation and Control (Module Coordinator)
  • EN4501– Control and Instrumentation
  • EN4502– Control and Signal Processing (Module Coordinator)
  • EN5501– Advanced Thermofluids (including CFD)

Responsible for supervision of following modules;

  • EN3600– Group Project
  • EN3602– Integrative Engineering Project
  • EN4600– Honours Project
  • EN4604– MEng Individual Project
  • EN4601– Pre-Project Industrial Placement
  • EN5600– Post-Project Industrial Placement
  • EN5601 – MEng Group Project
  • MSc and PhD Supervision

Responsible for following administration duties;

  • Admissions Tutor – Undergraduate Studies
  • Chair of Undergraduate Marketing Committee
  • Internal Moderator – Undergraduate Modules
  • Member of Moderation Panel – Industrial Placement Modules
  • Member of Assessment Committee and Board Meetings
  • Member of School Academic Board

Academic Background

  • BSc (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering – March 2000 – University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka
  • MSc in Mechanical Engineering – March 2002 – Ritsumeikan University Kyoto Japan
  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering – March 2005 – Ritsumeikan University Kyoto Japan
  • PGCertHELT Department for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching and Assessment – Nov. 2011 – RGU UK

Research Interests / Professional Background

I am a confident and self-motivated chartered engineer (CEng) with can-do attitude, possessing over 10 years of research, consultancy and teaching (FHEA) experinece in Mechanical Engineering. My experience is broad and wide-ranging covering oil/gas,renewable engergy/sustainability and aeospace/automobile industry.

I presently engage in the renewable energy technology development; mainly wind turbine, tidal and wave energy extraction devices and continue to utilise the expertise on analytical, experimetal and numerical fluid mechanics and aeroacoustics. Using expertise in aeroacoustics to improve one of the main concerns of wind-power generation namely, environmental noise issues and to improve aerodynamic efficiency, thereby enhancing power generation.

Additional Information / Media work / Funding

I possess diversified knowledge of mechanical engineering principles and capability of use of advanced analytical techniques for solution of complex engineering problems. My technical expertise ranging from Engineering Design (AutoCAD/Solidworks) and Fluid/Solid Mechanics (CFD/CAA/FEA – Ansys Fluent) to Controls (MatLab – Simulink) and Instrumentation (LabVIEW) with an excellent track record of Project Management skills.

My personal interests include Sports (Athletics, Cricket and F1) and Sight-seeing.

Professional Body Membership

  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy – FHEA – Recognition Ref. 45718
  • Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council – CEng – Registration No. 585148
  • Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers – MIMechE – Membership No. 80125035
  • Member, Institute of Acoustics – MIOA – Membership No. 44256
  • Member, Royal Aeronautical Society – MRAeS – Membership No. 1374369
  • Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer, National Instruments – CLAD – Serial No. 100-311-3878Key Publications

Key Publications

  • I.Yahathugoda, "Design and development of a high efficient low noise on-shore small wind turbine". International Journal of Renewable Energy, (to bepublished)
  • I.Yahathugoda, W. Crowther, I. Dupere and A. Lowe, Analytical and numerical modelling towards a design and a development of ultrasonic synthetic jet actuators for flow control and noise reduction. Journal of Sound and Vibration,(to be published)
  • I.Yahathugoda, W. Crowther, and I. Dupere, Experimental study on flow control techniques for noise reduction from a simplified landing gear model. Journalof Fluid Science and Technology, (to be published)
  • I.Yahathugoda, W. Crowther, I. Dupere and S. Liddle, Application of synthetic jet actuators for undercarriage noise reduction. FourteenthAIAA/CEAS aeroacoustic conference, Vancouver, Canada, PaperNo. AIAA 2008-3045, May 2008
  • I.Yahathugoda, S Akishita and T. Kawamura, An experiment and a numerical simulation on the effect of porous surface for reducing aerodynamic sound radiation from a circular cylinder, International Journal of Aeroacoustics,Vol.4, No.3-4, July 2005
  • I.Yahathugoda and S Akishita, Experimental Investigation on Surface Impedance Effect of Sound Radiation from Low Mach Number Flow around a Circular Cylinder, International Journal, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Series B,Vol.48, No.2, pp.342-349, May 2005
  • I.Yahathugoda and S Akishita, Computational andexperimental study of surface impedance effect on sound radiation from acircular cylinder. Tenth AIAA/CEAS aeroacoustic conference, Manchester, UK,Paper No. AIAA 2004-2915, May 2004
  • I.Yahathugoda and S Akishita, Investigation on the effect of surface impedance for reducing aerodynamic sound from circular cylinder, International Journal, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Series B, Vol.47, No.1,pp.67-74, February 2004
  • I.Yahathugoda and S Akishita, Computation of surface impedance effect on sound radiation from a circular cylinder in low Mach number flow. Proceedings of the Tenth ICSV conference, Stockholm, Sweden,Vol.7, pp.3891-3898, June 2003
  • I.Yahathugoda and S Akishita, Simulation on the effect of surface impedance for reducing aerodynamic sound from circular cylinder. Eighth AIAA/CEAS aeroacoustic conference, Breckenridge, CO, USA, Paper No. AIAA 2002-2434, July2002

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