Dr Anna Young 💙 @aero_anna Twitter profile

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 months

@FrontiersIn @DrCJ_Houldcroft By which you mean "when neither the reviewers nor the editor even look at the paper"

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

@elisepegg I can convert my course so it runs online, the software and IT support is just about there to do it. I can quadruple-teach my tutorials to get round social distancing, but I can't make the pandemic go away.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Dimensional Analysis...with cats

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

In my lectures I told my students that every time they draw flow going from right to left a cat dies. Based on their exam scripts, I can tell you that 1% of them hate cats

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Today's PPE haul (1710 face shields). Thanks to all the @UniofBathStaff who make this possible - security, print room, Lime Tree catering...the list goes on.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

New PhD opportunity! Work with me and Dr Al Hunter @UniofBath on a @GW4plusDTP project with Dr Pierre Dutrieux @BAS_News and @Alphillips200 @NOCsouthampton on a robot probe for understanding how ocean mixing affects climate change.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Come and do a PhD with me at Bath looking at the fluid dynamics of unsteady loading on wings - applicable to drones, wind turbines, tidal turbines, aircraft...

Effect of sweep on unsteady aerofoil aerodynamics at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Effect of sweep on unsteady aerofoil aerodynamics at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Nice early Christmas present for me - nominated in the Educator category :) #CUHA22

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

8 years ago today I submitted my PhD thesis. Hoping to celebrate the 10 year anniversary by completing probation and having my first permanent job

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

It's me! I'm officially aerodynamic

AeroWomen

@AeroWomen

5 years

Meet Dr Anna Young ( @aero_anna ), Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at @UniOfBath . Anna uses her expertise from aerospace to solve aerodynamic problems with tidal turbine blades #WomeninSTEM #WomenInEnergy

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Great to see the low-cost probe finally in the water getting turbulence data @QUBelfast for our @SupergenORE project on flow measurement for accurate #tidalturbine design

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

It gives me great pleasure to announce that today I have almost finished my March to do list. It's only March 157th

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

More ingenuity from the Bath PPE team: making glasses for pharmacists/GPs, who need protection but don't need a whole face shield. Arms can be 3D printed, laser cut from MDF or bent from metal rods.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Got the most important ribbon to add to my @aiaa #aiaascitech name badge.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

New certificate to add to the office wall #goodnewsfriday #teaching #catGIFsFTW

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

6 years

For a thermodynamics lab, we are surprisingly bad at making sure we have adequate heating/cooling...

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Last night I dreamt about teaching fluid mechanics using cats. What kind of crazy person would do that? Must have been hot...

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

We're hiring! Two #postdoc positions at the University of Edinburgh with @VOILAb_UoE to work on our Morphing Blades project:

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Achieved a life goal I don't know I had...appearing in Hello Magazine

Princess Anne brings the glamour in stylish blazer for special event

The Princess Royal looked effortlessly glamorous

www.hellomagazine.com

University of Bath

@UniofBath

2 years

A huge congratulations to @bathenganddes ' @aero_anna for winning the WISE New Educator Award in the @thewisecampaign #CUHA22 last night!

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

New TA for my course #Caturday #fluidmechanics

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

10 months

New paper by @amandasmsmyth on how #fish #swim . Turns out the maths we used to work out how turbines respond to turbulence can be turned inside out to resemble fish kinematics. Explains why pure flapping isn't great and may help design swimming robots:

Generating high-efficiency swimming kinematics using hydrodynamic eigenmode decomposition

This paper explores the use of hydrodynamic eigenmode decomposition as a means of generating optimal swimming kinematics of slender three-dimensional bodies. Th

pubs.aip.org

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Into the autumn gloom steps the #tidalturbine blade lamp. A practice run for the real thing rescued from the scraps bin and made into this as a leaving present by clever friends @whittlelab #5axis , #scienceart

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

1 year

another PhD opportunity with me, this time using #AI to understand tidal turbine performance and failure.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

9 months

New paper out on how our marine #turbulence #sensor (the Barnacle) performs against an ADV in a real #tidal flow:

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 months

@MarlonEttinger @FrontiersIn @DrCJ_Houldcroft They've put a "note of concern" on it

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

I've often thought that my results would make good duvet designs...

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

This is what 1000 face shields looks like #newshiftrecord . Excited to start on the neon green elastic, though it's not @bathenganddes colours #PPEforNHS

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

this afternoon, I said "cat" instead of "fluid" while talking about density changes with depth and when they do/don't happen.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Another problem solved, and so cheap too!

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Come and work on our project on morphing tidal turbines :)

VOILAb: Vortex Interaction Laboratory

@VOILAb_UoE

3 years

3 Research Associate positions in the Fluid Mechanics (2x) and structural mechanics (1x) of morphing blades for tidal turbines. In collaboration with Dr Young at U. Bath ( @aero_anna ). Closing date: 12/01/2021.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

first live teaching session done for the Semester. Students were more engaged than I expected on the important question of whether a cat is a liquid #nocatswereharmed

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Bigger tank this week: testing @amandasmsmyth 's designs @Ifremer_fr . Hopefully the water stays out of the turbine and the blades stay on!

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

Vortex street of the day. Enjoying day 1 of my #newjob @bathenganddes

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

The Christmas tree keeps falling over and nobody has any idea how or why.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

Gearing up for @camscience festival @whittlelab - testing the jet powered car

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

New paper on load alleviation for #tidal turbines (or anything with a blade/wing). Free to download for the next month!

Dr Abel Arredondo-Galeana

@arre_abel

3 years

Have a look at our latest work with passive #flaps for #unsteady load alleviation of #tidal #turbines here: ... @StrathMarine @aero_anna @amandasmsmyth @VOILAb_UoE @StrathclydeOA

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Fun fact: you can only open 50 PDFs at once in acrobat reader #marking

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

New blades for the model #tidalturbine designed by @amandasmsmyth for our @MaRINET2_EU project. Thanks to @whittlelab for letting us use their rapid manufacture facility.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Honoured to be included in this list #cuha22

WISE

@thewisecampaign

2 years

We are delighted to announce our fantastic #CUHA22 finalists. The variety and calibre of work nominated surprised us all, and every one of the women featured here is an excellent role model for women and girls considering a career in STEM. 👇

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Quick reminder that I'm advertising 2 PhD studentships: 1. Measuring sea turbulence to for #climatechange with @DrAlanHunter , @BAS_News and @Alphillips200 @NOCnews , deadline 10/1/22 2. AI for monitoring #tidalturbines with @simecatlantis , deadline 6/12/21

dr anna young PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Bath

www.findaphd.com

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Just testing the pre wash function on my new dishwasher #Caturday

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

Finally on the plane to #ewtec2019 . The aircraft has winglets fitted to improve the efficiency of the wings. Can we use something similar on a tidal turbine to get more power from the flow? Find out tomorrow at 16:40 in room Calipso.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Back to work. Need to come up with a shorter title for my @aiaa #AIAASciTech talk so it fits on the slide...

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

1 year

Great to take 8 final year students from @bathenganddes to the @whittlelab for the #turboCDT #womeninaerospace dinner last night. Interesting panel session, fun lab tours and an inspiring keynote

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

Want to work with me on making tidal power site surveys affordable? 9-month Research Assistant/Associate post available @bathenganddes on a @SupergenORE project for someone with experience of data acquisition and/or flow measurement. #tidalpower #PDRA #job

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Things I didn't expect to be filmed doing in 2020: picking up a bale of upholstery foam. Thanks, @RUHBath for the video of the setup @UniofBath @bathenganddes #PPE , #PPEforNHS

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Great to be @ewtec2021 in 3D. @amandasmsmyth did a great job talking about our work on unsteady loading from turbulence today. Also good times launching the Morphing Blades project with @VOILAb_UoE #renewables #turbulence

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Happy #INWED2021 . Here's a photo of me in overalls that don't fit. Work to do, @safetyshoes_deb

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

Just a casual trip to the local aircraft carrier #AiaaSciTech

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Frosty Friday commute at sunrise

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Thanks to @elisepegg , we now have a website: All the designs and instructions both for manufacture and for use are here.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

10 months

Yoga mode: activated #CatsOfTwitter

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

As the students aren't using the air jet lab right now, we thought we'd repurpose it to test out a couple of ventilator ideas

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

"Hello, IT support...yes, have you tried turning it off and on again?" #CaturdayEve #WFH

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Asked the students for 'stop-start-continue' feedback today. Here's the most important graph #teachingwithmemes

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Face shields: now available in @bathenganddes orange! #PPEfortheNHS

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Finally putting a probe in the water for our @SupergenORE project after many, many covid delays. Hoping travel to @QUBelfast will be allowed in the early spring for a proper swim in Strangford Lough

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

New colouschemes available. I'm branding them latte and lime, peach and pistachio, and, um, watermelon and bubblegum? #rollerdisco #PPEforNHS

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Stuck on a closed motorway. Naturally, I'm building flat pack furniture while I wait #mechanicalengineer

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Saturday fluid dynamics

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

New paper out on using wind tunnel techniques to measure turbulence in the sea. This work forms the basis of our @SupergenORE flex fund project on tidal channel measurements

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

I'm in that moment on a Monday morning when the weekly to-do list feels achievable (before I remember all the random things that will take up half the week) #academia

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Good time so far @UNFoLD_EPFL looking at 3D separations. The view's not bad either. Just working on a name for our new flow visualisation technique... #fluiddynamics #collaboration #flowvis

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Here's the same thing with a video of the facility you'd be using @FloWaveOcean . Come and work with me and @VOILAb_UoE on fatigue-resilient turbine blades:

VOILAb: Vortex Interaction Laboratory

@VOILAb_UoE

3 years

RECRUITING NOW: two Research Associates in the Fluid Mechanics of Morphing Blades. The post holders will have a PhD and a track record of publications in experimental fluid dynamics - in collaboration with @aero_anna (Bath) and Riccardo Broglia (CNR, ITA)

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Not so many opportunities for pics like this at the moment, so lockdown has pros and cons. Pros: not stuck in a 30cm tube trying to stick/remove aluminium tape for days at a time. Less inhalation of acetone. Cons: no lab, nothing to break up the writing, no orange boiler suit

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Teaching lesson #3 : the time taken for 340 students to copy down your maths is L O N G E R T H A N Y O U C A N I M A G I N E Anyway, here's a gif of the Pythagoras Cup in action:

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Come and work with me and @ARTAIBath on using #artificialintelligence to monitor #tidalturbines

Artificial intelligence for structural health monitoring of tidal turbines at University of Bath on...

PhD Project - Artificial intelligence for structural health monitoring of tidal turbines at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

People sometimes joke that when you plan a project you should take however long you think you need, add 1 and go up a unit. In this case, a 2-month project to make a new contraction for the wind tunnel has turned into a 3-year refurbishment, but it's finally nearing completion 😀

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Wasn't it Einstein who said "if you can't explain it in a GIF you don't really understand it"? #pedagogy

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

And another #PhD #opportunity - this time working with @simecatlantis on the @ARTAIBath CDT, using AI to understand data from tidal turbines and inform maintenance and improve performance: #tidalpower #ClimateCrisis [insert comment about buses here]

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

I won a thing #engineeringart

Engineering Dept

@Cambridge_Eng

5 years

The winners of our 2018 #ZEISS #Photography Competition have been announced! The competition celebrates the range & reach of #engineering in dazzling images & video.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Interested in measuring turbulence in the sea? Thought so. Apply to do a PhD with me, @DrAlanHunter and our colleagues at @NOCnews ( @Alphillips200 ) and @BAS_News #Oceaonography #ClimateScience #Robots

NERC GW4+ DTP PhD project: Autonomous underwater probe for ocean turbulence measurements to...

PhD Project - NERC GW4+ DTP PhD project: Autonomous underwater probe for ocean turbulence measurements to understand climate change at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

50,000 A3 face shields made @bathenganddes #PPEforNHS . Huge thanks to all the volunteers

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 months

Yesterday's episode of cats as cotton wool balls

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

#CaturdayEve treat for the students this afternoon thanks to #Eunice shutting the university

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Rosie, you're my person of the week.

BBC Somerset

@bbcsomerset

4 years

She's only eight, but that didn't stop Rosie applying for an apprenticeship 🚁 @Leonardo_UK invited her to visit the production line in Yeovil after getting her letter.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Pleasing number to see on the #PPEforNHS rota spreadsheet @bathenganddes . Looks like our 100,000th face shield is ready for dispatch!

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

Enjoying my first @WESBath event. Electronics is definitely magic to me #INWED19

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Computer says I need a longer holiday. Cat shopping time?

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

It's the question they've all been asking: what happens when you use a 2D model to predict the unsteady load on a 3D aerofoil? Find out this afternoon at #aiaaSciTech

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

KJ has 3 questions about outside: Can I climb it? Can I eat it? Can I chase it?

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

Yexit will be delivered today. My 44th and final term in Cambridge is ending. 3 colleges, 3 degrees, 850 supervisions, 4 international best paper awards. 1 broken bone, several broken probes. Countless laughs, a few tears.

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Another solution to a COVID problem brought to you by 3D printing: stick on smile (or sad face) for your mask

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Today's #wfh fun: learning to use Panopto on my laptop. "Hi, my name is Dr Fractal"

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

150 kg of #tidalturbine on its way to @Ifremer_fr for testing as part of @MaRINET2_EU . Sad not to be able to go with it, look after my crate @dhlexpressuk

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

In languages other than English, the word "engineer" sounds more like "ingenious" and less like "engine". I think that's part of the reason why engineering is particularly underrated in the UK. Nice to see Prince Charles doing his bit to set the record straight

Whittle Laboratory

@whittlelab

4 years

BBC News - Prince calls on 'genius' engineers to rescue the planet

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

Excited to be @lborouniversity for the #turboCDT #Womeninaerospace dinner. Hearing from Prof Rachel Thomson about her career and the history of women in engineering at Loughborough

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

curfew 0 - 1 KJ

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Hey @Panopto , any chance you can fix your service in Europe so our students can watch their lectures? Surely not that surprising that demand has gone up now term has started...same question to @moodle

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Cats and treacle! Must be time for Lecture 1 #fluids #teaching

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Happy #Caturday from my captor

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

had lots of fun last week finding out why some of the women studying/teaching/researching Mechanical Engineering @bathenganddes love their jobs. For more see here: #INWED2019 #WomenInSTEM

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

4 years

Update: the curve appears to be flattening, but I am taking every precaution and will be locking down my inbox from 09:00 tomorrow (Mon 11th May) #onlineexams #WFH #onlineteaching

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

Had fun presenting @UofGlasgow engineering department today. Here's an old school wind tunnel model from before we could just print what we wanted. Thanks @KiranKumar_R for hosting me!

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

3 years

Still time to apply to work @VOILAb_UoE on morphing blades for #tidalturbines - closing date 9th August: #renewableenergy #postdocjobs

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

2 years

Looking for a #changeofscene ? Have a PhD? Why not apply for a #MSCActions #Fellowship hosted by the Bath Beacon in #zerocarbon #offshorerenewables ? We're a group of #wind / #wave / #tidal researchers in Engineering/Science @UniofBath . More here:

Apply for an MSCA Fellowship hosted by the Bath Beacon in Zero-Carbon Offshore Power

The Bath Beacon in Zero-Carbon Offshore Power, University of Bath, invites EoIs from researchers for Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions European Postdoc Fellows.

www.bath.ac.uk

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

5 years

All three @whittlelab 3D printers hard at work at the moment...this one's making model planes for a primary school science festival

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

7 months

#Caturday

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Dr Anna Young 💙

@aero_anna

10 months

I'm increasingly convinced that the main skill in academia is being able to get the chicken department to give you a chicken without sending you to the egg department to get an egg first

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