Robinson-MHI Senior Research Fellow
Academic Division: Energy, Fluids and Turbomachinery
Research group: Energy
Email: jcm97@cam.ac.uk
Research projects
- Computational fluid dynamics frameworks for hydrogen–air combustion.
- Simulation of turbulent reacting flows under engine relevant conditions.
- Thermo-acoustics in gas turbine model combustors with hydrogen addition.
- Emissions prediction of CO and NOx using large eddy simulation.
- Analyses of bluff body and swirl-Stabilised Flames Using Large Eddy Simulation (PhD thesis).
Biography
James is a Robinson-MHI Senior Research Fellow (since 2022) and is a member of the Energy Group of Division A. His research is funded by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Takasago and he has also been funded as a research associate (2019-2022) by MHI at the same department. He holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge (2015-2019) and an MEng in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Manchester (2011-2015). He was elected as a fellow of Robinson College in 2022 and a postdoctoral research associate member in 2019. He is a committee member of the Institute of Physics Combustion Physics Group and a member of the The Combustion Institute British Section. He has been awarded the Sugden award in 2024 by The Combustion Institute British Section for the best paper published in 2023. He has worked on a wide range of topics related to computational fluid dynamics of reacting flows, and he has published 20 journal articles and a book chapter. For a full list of publications, please see the ORCID record: 
0000-0003-4585-9866.
External websites
Teaching activities
- 4A13 Combustion and Engines, lecturer: 2023 - 2025
- ETB-1 Clean fossil fuels, lecturer: 2022 - 2023
- 1CW Turbocharger, lab leader: 2021 - 2022
- 1P1 Thermofluid Mechanics, supervisor for Newnham College: 2020 - 2021
- 2P4 Thermofluid Mechanics, supervisor for Robinson College: 2018 -
- 3A5 Thermodynamics and Power Generation, supervisor for various colleges: 2016 - 2018