CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing

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• Dr Sam Grimshaw, The Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• Monday 27 January 2025, 19:30-21:00
• Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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How research at the Whittle Laboratory is helping to deliver zero emission flight and uncover the mysteries of cricket ball swing.

For the last 50 years, the Whittle Laboratory in Cambridge has helped to develop the efficient, reliable and safe power generation and aircraft propulsion systems we take for granted today. The next great challenge is to deliver zero carbon power and propulsion and we are working hard, alongside our industrial partners, government and other universities, to deliver the technologies needed to make this step. My talk will explain the potential and address some of the challenges associated with using zero emission, “Electric Jet Engines”, for flight.

As well as tackling the climate change challenge, the Whittle Lab has a long history of investigating sports aerodynamics. In the second half of the talk, we will see how the science used to design and test jet engines has been used to understand the mysterious art of swing bowling in cricket.

All welcome. More details, including a booking link, are here.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) series.

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