Rosie Robison

Ph.D. student

Research subject:
High speed propeller acoustics

Supervisor:
Prof Nigel Peake

Office:
Room G2.03
Telephone: +44 1223 7 60450

DAMTP
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge CB3 0WA
United Kingdom

College:
Jesus College

Email:
Rosie.Robison 'at' damtp.cam.ac.uk

My PhD: I study the noise generated by the new and fuel-efficient Advanced Open Rotor aeroplane engine. This engine involves two very large counter-rotating propellers with no casing around them. The interaction between the rotating blades and wind leads to tonal noise, quite different from current aeroengines.

Young Researchers in Mathematics 2009 (also known as Beyond Part III) was a new three-day conference held in Cambridge over 16-18 Apr 2009 which I co-founded. Two hundred PhD students from across the UK and further afield attended. YRM 2010 took place in Cambridge again, YRM 2011 took place in Warwick, and YRM 2012 will be taking place in Bristol over 2-4 April 2012.

Ice sheets: I previously worked on an experimental project in the fluids labs here, modelling ice sheet-ice shelf systems using Golden Syrup! The results, together with new theoretical work, are presented in the paper Dynamics of Viscous Grounding Lines, Rosalyn AV Robison, Herbert E Huppert, M Grae Worster Journal of Fluid Mechanics.