Education/Professional Qualifications

• PhD Aerospace Engineering (University of Manchester)
• MEng Aerospace Engineering with Management (University of Manchester)
• Chartered Engineer (Engineering Council United Kingdom)
• Professional European Engineer (European Federation of National Engineering Associations – FEANI)

Teaching Areas

• Introduction to Turbomachinery
• Fluid and Thermal Engineering
• Energy Generation and the Environment
• Advanced Concept of Conventional Energies
• Engineering Mechanics

Current Research Activities

• Development of Swirl-Trapped-Vortex Micro-Combustor
• Development of Laser Energy Injection for Hypersonic Inlet Flow Control

Recent Publications

AC Idris, MR Saad, K Kontis Investigation of Variable Geometry Intake to Mitigate Unwanted Shock-shock Interactions in a Hypersonic Air-breathing Propulsion Device Springer Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 2020

I Said, MRA Rahman, AC Idris, FM Sakri, MR Saad The Effect of Flow Control on Wing-in-Gound Craft Hull-Fuselage for Improved Aerodyamics Performance Springer Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 2020

NA Majid, AC Idris, HM Faizal, MRA Rahman, SE Hosseini Characteristics of Liquid Fuel Combustion in a Novel Miniature Vortex Combustor Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 2019