(2001-) Adil Dafa’Alla, Airbus UK Ltd, UK

Dr. Dafa’Alla has graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Khartoum, Sudan in 1981. He then completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in England, where he was awarded his Ph.D degree in 1988. Currently, Dr. Dafa’Alla is a specialist member of the High Lift Devices Group at Airbus UK Ltd. His responsibilities include the development and application of CFD to aircraft high Lift and associated flows. Prior to his employment at Airbus in 1996, Dr. Dafa’Alla has a vast CFD experience at postdoctoral level both at UMIST and the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine – University of London, where he co-authored the 2-equation q-ı model of turbulence together with Dr. M.M. Gibson. His current research interest in wake vortices behind aircraft covers both the aircraft safety aspect as well as airport capacity planning issues. His research activities, covering finite element, finite volume and turbulence modelling issues, are reported in a number of journals and conference papers in addition to many technical reports.