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RefNoEC/1988/03
Previous numbersCert XXII, 100
LevelItem
TitleBradley, Derek: certificate of election to the Royal Society
Date1984
DescriptionCitation typed
CitationBradley has made important experimental and theoretical contributions to the science and technology of combustion. An academic engineer with substantial industrial experience, he has recognized and attacked in a basic way problems that range from the prediction of overpressures in large scale industrial explosions to the improvement of efficiency in the next generation of spark-ignition engines. His ability to analyze the interactions of aerodynamics, turbulence and chemical kinetics has resulted in fundamental contributions to (i) the mathematical modelling of combustion in gas-turbines and in furnaces and (ii) to our understanding of the hazards involved in confined and unconfined explosions. He has made important studies of electromagnetics influences on flames and applied these basic results to spark ignition, chemi-ionisation and the influence of radio and microwaves.
On the wider stage his work for the Combustion Institute, on pollution, and on energy policy in developing countries have won him general recognition as an active, practically minded man, international and interdisciplinary.
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