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BRIEF
CV OF PROFESSOR YULE
Present Positions: Visiting Professor, Spray Research Group, University of Salford
Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manchester (UMIST), since May 2004.
Director, Perdac Ltd,
Manchester; Director, CPFResearch Ltd, nr Sheffield.
Previous Positions: Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UMIST,
where he was responsible for the Aerospace Engineering Course and taught fluid mechanics, experimental methods and engineering
design,
Research Fellow at Warwick (1970), (MHD/turbulence),
Southampton (1972, turbulence structure) and Sheffield
(1974, sprays and combustion) Universities
Qualifications: BSc(Hon) Aeronautical Eng. Univ. of Manchester (1966)
PhD:
Fluid Mech. (Turbulent Mixing) Univ. of Manchester (1969)
DSc: (Sprays and Turbulent Flow) Univ. Manchester (1993)
Learned Societies: FRAeS (Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society)
Founder and leader of the Atomization
and Sprays Research Group at UMIST; 1990-2004. Recognised internationally in the spray research field, edited major conference
proceedings (ICLASS-85, ILASS-Europe’98, ICLASS-94), on journal editorial boards (Atomization and Sprays, International
Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow), and presented invited plenary papers and chaired sessions in many international conferences,
e.g. ICLASS 2003 in Sorrento. Jointly founded, with Prof P Eisenklam, Institute of Liquid Atomisation and Spray Systems-Europe,
in 1982.
Authored over 190 publications and 60 research reports, mainly in the areas of turbulent flows, sprays,
atomizer design, two phase flows, measurement techniques (see separate list of publications), and 8 Patents on atomizer
design, including medical inhalers, ultrasonic atomizers, surface cleaning and consumer aerosols.. Co-authored Oxford
University Press book “Atomization of Melts”, published 1994, and Springer Verlag book “Industrial Sprays”,
published 2002.
Consulted for Ministry of Defence, Health & Safety Executive, many pharmaceutical companies,
oil companies and other major companies involved in fluid mechanics, sprays and aerosols (Glaxo-Wellcome/GSK, Rhône
Poulenc Rorer (Aventis), BP Chemicals, BP Research, Esso (Exxon UK) Research/INFINEUM, Procter and Gamble, Rolls Royce Aero
Engines (Derby), Unilever/Elida Fabergé, Akzo Nobel etc.).
Fundamental research on break-up of liquid sheets
and liquid jets, internal flow in atomizers, spray cooling, turbulence structure, turbulent jets, closure schemes for CFD
models and application of CFD codes
Industrially supported research (including DTI and EU supported research) in
the areas of compressed gas use and pressure-swirl nozzle designs for VOC reduction in aerosol cans, and various spray combustion,
water spray and electrostatic spray problems, diesel injection, flammability hazard determination, spray drying optimisation,
polymer powder production by ultrasonic gas atomisation.
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