Director and Co-Founder
David Standingford is a technology leader and manager with experience in the UK, Australia and the USA. Prior to co-founding Zenotech Ltd, David worked as a lecturer in mathematics and fluid dynamics at the University of Adelaide, as a postdoctoral researcher on the NASA Microgravity Programme at the University of Delaware, and most recently at BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre as the Theme Technology Leader for Design and Materials Technology, responsible for Computational Engineering, IT Strategy, Materials Science and Stealth.
David manages Zenotech financial, commercial, licensing and legal operations, as well as project management, university and industrial partnerships, bid writing and proposals. David co-ordinates communications and press releases for the company. David leads on wind energy consultancy programmes, including international partnering.
David acts on the advisory board for the UK Fluids Network and is a member of UK EPSRC College of Peer Reviewers providing industrial expertise. David is the Chairman of the European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC).
Publications
- MR Allan, DW Standingford, J Appa , "Aero-acoustic noise predictions using stochastic noise generation and non-boundary conformal refined Cartesian meshes", AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2023
- Mike Turner, J. Sharpe, Max Kopacz, David Standingford, "Validation of CFD-based Data Service for Drone Inspection of Wind Farms with Flight Test Data", ICAS 2024 Congress
- Standingford, D. "Rapid RANS wake simulation with customisable turbine models: CPU / GPU with Python interface", WindEurope Conference PO175
- Standingford, D., Sequeira, C., Allan, M., Rider, C., Furse, G., and Sharpe, J., "Validating Airspace CFD Models For Drone Operation with Flight Test Data", 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS2022), Stockholm, Sweden. (2022, November 28)
