Dr. Brian Maskew

SIERRA VISTA, AZ — 12/14/08 — Dr Maskew has over 50 years experience in the field of fluid dynamics, starting with a 5 year General Aeronautical Engineering apprenticeship with Blackburn and General Aircraft in Yorkshire, England; specializing in aerodynamics he went on to earn an MSc at the Cranfield College of Aeronautics, and a PhD at Loughborough University of Technology. Until 1974, he worked in the aerodynamics office of Hawker Siddeley Aviation (formerly Blackburn and General Aircraft and later part of British Aerospace), and developed an early vorticity panel method, QuadVort, for treating high lift configurations. In 1974 he came over to NASA Ames at Moffet Field CA on a one year project to continue research on high-lift wings in the Full Scale Wind Tunnel department.

In 1975 he accepted a position with Analytical Methods, Inc, in Bellevue WA where he worked until 2003, developing various flow prediction computer programs including, CLMAX, OscAir, VSAERO and USAERO. These were developed under research funding from NASA, the Air-Force, Navy and Army, and also through various projects from industry, both in the USA and abroad. The projects covered a broad range of subjects including: aircraft engine/airframe integration, helicopters, high speed train problems, racing cars, racing yachts, passenger ferries, marine propellers, submarines and surface ships. The CLMAX program, developed for the Army, was a 2-d coupled inviscid/viscous program for predicting the non-linear characteristics of helicopter rotor blade sections up to angles of attack beyond the stall. OscAir was an unsteady, time-stepping version of this and included a dynamic wake model for dealing with oscillating airfoils under dynamic stall conditions over a wide range of angle of attack. VSAERO and USAERO are 3D programs for steady and unsteady conditions, respectively, on complex, arbitrary configurations. Since 2003, as a private consultant, Dr Maskew has been developing FloSim, a time-stepping flow simulation program aimed principally at yacht hull/appendage hydrodynamics and sail aero-structural analysis.