Dr Ivor Day

Dr Ivor Day received a PhD degree from Cambridge in 1976.  After working in industry for eleven years, he returned to the Whittle Lab as a Research Fellow funded by Rolls-Royce.   Apart from the supervision of PhD students, his work has been predominantly experimental, concentrating on problems which are not yet amenable to CFD analysis.  Ivor has many publications, awards and patents and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.  Now semi-retired, Ivor is an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College.

Awards:

1972: Charles Rylott Foster Scholarship

– for exceptional achievement in MSc Degree.

1977: American Society of Mechanical Engineers  "Gas Turbine Award 1977"

– for paper on rotating stall in axial compressors.

1978: IMechE "George Stephenson Research Prize"

– for paper on the structure of rotating stall cells.

1993: American Society of Mechanical Engineers "Gas Turbine Award 1991"

– for paper on stall inception and active control.

1999: American Society of Mechanical Engineers “Gas Turbine Award, 1997”

– for paper on stall inception in axial compressors.

2005: American Society of Mechanical Engineers  “Gas Turbine Award 2004”

– for paper on low emissions combustion.

2006: American Society of Mechanical Engineers “John P Davis Award 2004”

– for  paper on low emissions combustion.

2006: American Society of Mechanical Engineers  “Gas Turbine Award 2005”

– for paper on rain ingestion.

2006: Rolls-Royce, “Sir Henry Royce Technical Awards: Best Patent Award”

– for patent of new combustion chamber.

2009: IGTI, Turbomachinery  Committee “Best paper Award”

– for paper on Highly Loaded Compressors

2012: IGTI, Turbomachinery  Committee “Best paper Award”

– for paper on Stall Warning

2012: American Society of Mechanical Engineers "Gas Turbine Award, 2012" - for paper on origins of spike stall.

2015: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, "Scholar Award, 2015" - for paper on stall and surge research.