Dr. Tom Jelly
Senior Lecturer, Aerospace Engineering
Details
College: School of Engineering
Department: School of Engineering
Campus: City Campus Australia
thomas.jelly@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
About
Dr Thomas (Tom) Jelly is a Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering whose teaching and research focus on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with an emphasis on high-fidelity simulations of transitional and turbulent flows. His recent research leveraged exa-scale high-performance computing resources to investigate the aerothermal performance of turbomachinery, in collaboration with GE Aerospace.
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Research fields
- 401204 Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics)
- 401201 Aerodynamics (excl. hypersonic aerodynamics)
- 401213 Turbulent flows
- 4012 Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering
- 460607 High performance computing
Academic positions
- Research Fellow in Extreme-Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics
- The University of Melbourne
- Mechanical Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- 6 Feb 2023 – 24 Sep 2026
- Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
- University of Leicester
- School of Engineering
- Leicester, United Kingdom
- 2 Feb 2022 – 17 Dec 2022
- Research Fellow in Fluid Mechanics
- The University of Melbourne
- Mechanical Engineering
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2 Apr 2018 – 17 Dec 2021
- Research Fellow in Computational Turbulent Flows
- University of Glasgow
- Aerospace Engineering
- Glasgow, United Kingdom
- 6 Mar 2017 – 5 Mar 2018
- Research Fellow in Compressor Aerodynamics
- University of Cambridge
- Engineering
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 5 May 2014 – 10 Feb 2017
Research interests
- Computationl Fluid Dynamics for Compressible / Incompressible Flows
- Large Eddy Simulation & Direct Numerical Simulations
- High-Performance Computing & Parallel Programming
- Turbomachinery Aero-Thermal Performance
- Agentic Artificial Intelligence
