Engineering
Knowledge platform · Lucas Rey
The master index for my aerothermal engineering work. This hub connects open-source tools, fluid mechanics curriculum, notes, and the applied experimental campaigns from my time at the Oxford Thermofluids Institute and in industry.
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Why visitors arrive: You want tools, curriculum, research, and projects in one place.
Your question: What exists here, and where should I start?
You may also be asking
- Do you have calculators or coursework I can use today?
- Where is the peer-reviewed research?
- How does teaching relate to the technical material?
Where to go next
- Engineering calculators: Interactive tools with documented correlations
- Fluid mechanics curriculum: Structured learning path from first principles
- Publications: Formal research record
- Instrumentation theme: If your question is about probes and measurement
Find your path
Choose a path below. Every track leads directly to published evidence, datasets, and methodologies.
Industry engagement
Instrumentation, turbomachinery, and collaboration.
Learning & teaching
Open curriculum, calculators, and teaching support.
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- Author: Lucas Rey, Oxford DPhil aerothermal engineer (Rolls-Royce sponsored HPT research) · ORCID · Oxford profile · About
- Asset types: Calculators, curriculum, notes, publications, projects, articles, research themes
- Maintenance: Git-maintained catalogues, register once in JSON, discoverable across the site
- Professional context: Collaborate · Teaching · Ventures
What lives here
The seven asset types published here, and where they come from
This platform operates as a single interconnected graph. The thermophysical calculators and curriculum modules I use for sizing engine test facilities at Oxford are the exact same open-source assets published here. No separate silos, no paywalled LMS models.
- Tools: calculators and utilities with documented correlations and SI units
- Curriculum: first-principles fluid mechanics modules with theory and problems
- Notes: derivations, calibration models, and experimental methods
- Research: publications and technical papers
- Applied work: projects and case studies
- Software: reusable tools and packaged products (catalogue slot reserved)
- Articles & datasets: planned extensions for long-form writing and downloadable resources
Knowledge ecosystem
Every pillar and its canonical pages, in six cards
lucasrey.com is one interconnected graph, not separate silos. Each pillar below has a canonical home; research themes, curriculum modules, and tools cross-link so readers can move from theory to data to application without dead ends.
Research
Formal peer-reviewed output and thematic synthesis.
Applied work
Campaigns, case studies, and field validation.
- Projects
- Ventures
- Applied aerodynamics
- Compressible CFD portfolio (projects index)
- Collaborate
Tools & curriculum
Interactive utilities and structured learning paths.
Planned extensions
Reserved catalogue slots, connect automatically when published.
- Software: packaged engineering tools
- Resources: datasets and reference assets (FO-12)
How it connects
Every published page declares pillar membership and related work, see Part of and Connected work on member pages, plus the git-maintained index below.
Professional programs
Four commercial engagement types, with the enquiry route for each
Commercial engagements backed by the same published engineering work, workshops, technical review, consulting, and teaching. Full programme list on Collaborate and Teaching.
- Corporate workshops: aerothermal measurement, CFD validation, turbomachinery · enquire
- Technical review: instrumentation and simulation QA before major campaigns · enquire
- Consulting & collaboration: scoped advisory and R&D partnerships · Collaborate
- Teaching & training: STEM support and corporate curriculum modules · Teaching hub
Choosing the right asset type
Where each of ten formats belongs, so nothing duplicates another layer
Each format has a canonical home, use this map when adding or linking content so nothing duplicates another layer.
- Publications: peer-reviewed papers and formal manuscripts only
- Projects: applied case studies, experimental campaigns, and outcomes
- Technical notes: short derivations, calibration models, and methods (MathJax)
- Articles: long-form essays and reference writing beyond notes
- Curriculum: structured university modules with theory + problems
- Calculators: interactive tools with documented correlations
- Teaching: human support and learning paths; links to open material above
- Ventures: enterprise and field-validation context for applied aerodynamics
- Research themes: editorial synthesis pages (e.g. instrumentation, turbomachinery deterioration) linking papers, projects, and notes
- Methods clusters: cross-cutting experiment and CFD validation workflows (aerothermal methods, applied aerodynamics)
Intellectual property & long-term structure
Why this is built as durable intellectual property, with three example threads
Everything on this platform is designed as durable intellectual property: git-maintained catalogues, explicit relationships between tools and research, and structured curriculum, not disposable landing pages. Example threads: transient thermography on engine-scale vanes (HPT deterioration), the 2024 additive heat-exchanger paper, and the in-preparation Oxford open-hardware probe manuscript: each with a project log, note, or publication anchor.
Planned extensions connect automatically when published, no site redesign required.
Flagship entry points
Five places to start, from the HPT research programme to the calculators
- Turbomachinery deterioration: flagship HPT research programme
- Compressible & turbomachinery CFD: graduate simulation and design portfolio
- Instrumentation & measurement: pneumatic probing and uncertainty workflows
- Fluid mechanics curriculum: structured university modules
- Engineering calculators: thermophysical utilities with documented correlations
The full index below is generated from the git-maintained engineering catalogue.
Connected activities
How engineering credibility connects to teaching, ventures and collaboration
Engineering credibility supports teaching, ventures, and professional collaboration. For scoped advisory work, see professional services on the about page. Long-form writing beyond notes appears on Articles (pilot). For research or consulting enquiries, use the contact page.
Part of
This page sits within the broader knowledge structure on lucasrey.com:
- Engineering - Central knowledge platform - tools, curriculum, notes, and research assets.
Connected work
Related content from the same research and engineering work:
- Engineering calculators
- Fluid mechanics curriculum
- Technical notes
- Publications
- Engineering platform - Referenced from Oxbridge lexicon
- Engineering platform - Referenced from Experimental aerothermal measurement
- Engineering platform - Referenced from Air properties calculator
Related hub
- Collaborate - Industry advisory, aerothermal R&D collaboration, and venture partnerships.
Knowledge platform index
Tools, curriculum, notes, research, and applied work: one map of what is on lucasrey.com.
Interactive tools
Calculators and utilities for thermophysical, measurement, and fluid-engineering problems - SI units, documented correlations.
- Engineering calculators - Air properties (live); probe uncertainty and related tools (planned).
- Air properties calculator - Dry-air thermophysical properties - density, viscosity, conductivity, and specific heats for aerothermal sizing (200 to 2000 K).
- Pipe flow calculator - Reynolds number, Colebrook friction factor, Darcy-Weisbach pressure drop, head loss and wall shear stress for a full circular pipe.
Structured curriculum
First-principles fluid mechanics modules with theory, problems, and internal cross-links - designed for long-form study.
- Problem-solving procedures - Core algorithms for dimensional analysis and viscous flow problems.
- Fluid mechanics curriculum - Index and learning path across modules.
- Viscous flow - Governing equations, boundary layers, and pipe flow.
- Viscous flow - problems - Worked and practice problems for viscous flow.
- Dimensional analysis - Pi groups, similarity, and model testing.
- Dimensional analysis - problems - Practice problems for dimensional analysis.
Technical notes
Short derivations, calibration models, and experimental methods supporting publications and projects. Grouped by knowledge cluster on the notes hub.
- Engineering notes - Reference material and methods documentation - instrumentation and turbomachinery clusters.
- Pneumatic probes overview - 3-hole vs 5-hole selection, calibration workflow, and facility transfer - orientation before instrument-specific derivations.
- 3-hole probe uncertainty - Uncertainty propagation for multi-hole pneumatic probes.
- HPT transient thermography - Transient IR data-reduction and uncertainty workflow for ECAT turbine campaigns.
- Dimensionless groups reference - Re, Ma, Nu, Pr, Bi and similarity checklists - foundational lookup linked to curriculum modules.
- Measurement uncertainty fundamentals - Bias, precision, propagation methods, and practical workflow for aerothermal metrology.
- Additive heat-exchanger low-order models - NTU-effectiveness screening and AM constraint checks for compact heat exchangers.
Research themes
Editorial synthesis pages that group publications, projects, notes, and tools around long-running aerothermal research threads - canonical homes for topical authority.
- Instrumentation & measurement - Pneumatic probing, calibration transfer, and uncertainty propagation.
- Turbomachinery deterioration - Rolls-Royce HPT leading-edge holing - aerothermal and thermal performance research.
- Thermal & additive design - Low-order heat-exchanger design and additive manufacturing constraints.
- Aerothermal engineering methods - Cross-cutting experiment, instrumentation, and CFD-experiment validation workflows.
- Applied aerodynamics - Field aerodynamics, wind resource assessment, and outdoor fluid systems linked to ventures and projects.
Research
Peer-reviewed and technical publications in aerothermal and fluid engineering.
- Publications - Peer-reviewed papers and manuscripts in preparation - research pillar with thematic hubs, project links, and structured metadata.
Applied work
Case studies and project work connecting theory to practice.
Articles
Longer-form technical writing beyond short notes - Year 2 pilot.
- Articles - Essays and technical articles (pilot).
- Experimental aerothermal measurement - Methods article on traceability, similarity, and facility transfer - links instrumentation, curriculum, and tools.
- CFD-experiment validation - Methods article on closing the loop between RANS simulations and transient aerothermal measurements.
- Oxbridge lexicon - Terminology reference for STEM applicants and mentors.
Connected activities
Engineering credibility also connects to professional teaching and collaboration:
- Publications - Peer-reviewed research - the formal research pillar.
- Projects - Applied case studies and experimental campaigns.
- Articles - Long-form reference writing beyond notes and papers.
- Teaching - Engineering-informed teaching and mentoring.
- Ventures - Applied aerodynamics and enterprise operations.
- Collaborate - Industry advisory, R&D partnerships, and venture collaboration.
Explore the platform
Tools, curriculum, and applied work from the same engineering body of knowledge:
- Calculators - Interactive engineering utilities with documented correlations.
- Fluid mechanics curriculum - Structured modules with theory and problems.
- Publications - Peer-reviewed research in aerothermal engineering.
- Technical notes - Derivations, calibration models, and experimental methods.
- Projects - Applied engineering case studies.
- Articles - Long-form reference writing (pilot collection).
- Ventures - Field validation and enterprise operations.
- Teaching - Engineering-informed teaching and mentoring.
- Instrumentation & measurement - Probe calibration, uncertainty, and multi-facility transfer.
- Turbomachinery deterioration - Flagship HPT research programme - ECAT campaigns and manuscripts.
- Aerothermal methods - Cross-cutting experiment design and CFD-experiment validation.
- about - Central knowledge platform - tools, curriculum, notes, and research assets.
- Additive heat-exchanger low-order models - NTU-effectiveness screening and AM constraint checks for compact heat exchangers.
Where to go from here
Ways to take this further, in the order they usually happen.
- Get air properties at your own conditions - Conductivity, viscosity, specific heat, gamma and Prandtl for dry air from a temperature alone, and density, thermal diffusivity and kinematic viscosity once you add a pressure, each beside the correlation it came from and its valid range
- See the work these methods come from - Turbomachinery and gas dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, experimental aerodynamics and instrumentation
- Read the published work - Peer-reviewed papers, with the methods and the data behind them
- How an engagement is scoped - Defined remit, timeline and deliverables, and which path suits which kind of work
- Discuss a piece of technical work - Scoped advisory, aerothermal review, instrumentation design and R and D roles
I take a small number of advisory engagements alongside the doctorate.