DrKevin Gouder

Dr Kevin Gouder leads a team of researchers and engineers at the 10’×5’ wind tunnel, the flagship of the National Wind Tunnel Facility initiative (www.nwtf.ac.uk). The team enables and conducts research, and provides wind tunnel services to the aeronautical and civil wind engineering sectors. Dr Gouder’s team provide wind tunnel consultancy services to the civil wind engineering sector, exploiting the long development fetch length of the 10’×5’ tunnel. The team works alongside wind engineering consultants, providing them with simulated atmospheric boundary layers at scale, and with measurements in wind environment, pedestrian safety and comfort, building cladding wind loads, building wind loads, wake assessments of proposed structures and their effect on nearby airfields and helipads, and studies in the outer flow-inner flow interactions around civil structures. Dr Gouder and Prof Mike Graham are conducting research on the distortion effects of wind turbine rotors on the oncoming, upstream turbulence. Dr Gouder and Prof Graham also direct Imperial's research in project ICONIC funded by EC Horizon, investigating wind farm coordinated control. Dr Gouder is leading the Department’s participation in the NASA Common Research Model in High Lift configuration (CRM-HL) project led by Boeing in the UK.