Wheels, Wakes and Automotive Aerodynamics

Dr Adrian Gaylard is Jaguar Land Rover’s Technical Specialist in Computational Aerodynamics, with responsibility for simulation processes, methods development and research. His interests are drag reduction, unsteady aerodynamics, surface contamination and computational aeroacoustics.  Adrian has a doctorate in unsteady flow, vehicle surface contamination and aerodynamic drag (University of Warwick). He is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist, the Chair of the Aerodynamics Activity at the SAE, Chair of the EPSRC National Wind Tunnel Facility (NWTF) Advisory Board, Chair of the European Car Aerodynamics Research Association (ECARA) and a Visiting Fellow in Vehicle Aerodynamics at Loughborough University