Professor Jerome Jarrett

Research group: Aeronautical Design
Telephone: +44 1223 332552
 

Biography

• MA, University of Cambridge, 2000
• MEng, University of Cambridge, 1997
• PhD, University of Cambridge, 2001
• MRAeS, 2005

Research

Jerome's research is in Aeronautical Design and Optimisation, particularly under Uncertainty. Its pricipal funders are EPSRC, Boeing and Rolls-Royce. It covers a range of overlapping and mutually supportive themes:

• Hybrid and Solar Electric Aircraft Conceptual Design
• Transonic Wing Shock-Control Bump Design
• Robust Aerodynamic Design Methods
• Multi-Fidelity Turbomachinery Design

Academic Collaborations:
Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory (MIT), British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge), Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (Stanford), Scott Polar Research Institute (Cambridge)

Industrial Collaborations:
Boeing Phantom Works, Rolls-Royce, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Current Visitors:
Dr Laurence Cook (MIT)

Current PhD Students:

Sam Phillips (Aeronautical Multifidelity Design), Daumantas Kavolis (Robust Aerodynamic Design), Fergus Flanagan (Hybrid Electric Aircraft Design)

Current MEng Students:
Finn Baseley (Antarctic UAV Ice Detection and Mitigation), John Perry (Future Green Supersonic Commercial Flight)

Previous Research Staff:

Dr Timoleon Kipouros (Multi-Fidelity Turbomachinery Design), Dr Tiziano Ghisu (now at the University of Cagliari), Dr Jeremy Eastwood (now at DroneDeploy)

Previous PhD Students:

Theo Bell, Jeremy Eastwood, Laurence Cook, Natasha Jones

TEACHING

2nd Year: Linear Algebra in Paper 7 - Mathematical Methods

3rd Year: Two-Dimensional Compressible Flow in Module 3A3 - Fluid Mechanics II

3rd Year: Light Aircraft Design Project GC2

4th Year:  Transonic Aerodynamics in Module 4A7 - Aerodynamics

OUTREACH

Jerome oversees the James Dyson Foundation Undergraduate Bursary scheme.

ADMINISTRATION

Jerome is the Department's Liason Officer for the Royal Aeronautical Society.

COLLEGE TEACHING

Jerome is a Fellow of Trinity Hall where he is Director of Studies in Part I Engineering and supervises first-year Mechanics and Structures.

Selected publications

AEROSPACE DESIGN UNDER UNCERTAINTY

COOK, L.W., A.A. MISHRA, JARRETT, J.P. WILLCOX, K.E. and IACCARINO, G. (2019) 'Optimization Under Turbulence Model Uncertainty for Aerospace Design' Physics of Fluids DOI: 10.1063/1.5118785

COOK, L.W. and JARRETT, J.P. (2018) 'Optimization Using Multiple Dominance Criteria for Aerospace Design Under Uncertainty' AIAA Journal DOI: 10.2514/1.J056951

GHISU, T., JARRETT, J.P. and PARKS, G.T. (2011) 'Robust Design Optimization of Airfoils with Respect to Ice Accretion'
AIAA Journal of Aircraft DOI: 10.2514/1.C031100

ROBUST OPTIMISATION TECHNIQUES

COOK, L.W., WILLCOX, K.E. and JARRETT, J.P. (2020) 'Design Optimization Using Multiple Dominance Relations'
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering DOI: 10.1002/nme.6316

COOK, L.W., JARRETT, J.P. and WILLCOX, K.E., (2018) 'Extending Horsetail Matching for Optimization Under Probabilistic, Interval, and Mixed Uncertainties' AIAA Journal DOI: 10.2514/1.J056371

COOK, L.W. and JARRETT, J.P. (2018) 'Horsetail Matching: a Flexible Approach to Optimization under Uncertainty'
Engineering Optimization DOI: 10.1080/0305215X.2017.1327581

TRANSONIC WING SHOCK-CONTROL BUMP DESIGN

JONES, N.R. and JARRETT, J.P. (2018) 'Designing a Shock Control Bump Array for a Transonic Wing–Body Model'
AIAA Journal DOI: 10.2514/1.J056725

JONES, N.R., EASTWOOD, J.P. and JARRETT, J.P. (2017) 'Adapting Three-Dimensional Shock Control Bumps for Swept Flows'
AIAA Journal DOI: 10.2514/1.J055169

EASTWOOD, J.P. and JARRETT, J.P. (2012) 'Toward Designing With 3D Bumps for Lift/Drag Improvement and Buffet Alleviation'
AIAA Journal DOI: 10.2514/1.J051740

MULTI-FIDELITY TURBOMACHINERY DESIGN

JARRETT, J.P. and GHISU, T. (2015) 'Balancing Configuration and Refinement in the Design of Two-Spool Multistage Compression Systems'
ASME Journal of Turbomachinery DOI: 10.1115/1.4030051

GHISU, T., PARKS, G.T., JARRETT, J.P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2010) 'Adaptive Polynomial Chaos for Gas Turbine Compression Systems Performance Analysis'
AIAA Journal DOI: 10.2514/1.J050012

JARRETT, J.P., GHISU, T. and PARKS, G.T. (2009) 'On the Coupling of Designer Experience and Modularity in the Aerothermal Design of Turbomachinery'
ASME Journal of Turbomachinery DOI: 10.1115/1.2992513