Centre staff
Dr John Hart
Senior sports computational fluid dynamics (CFD) engineer
Phone 0114 225 4405
Email john.hart@shu.ac.uk
Dr John Hart is a senior sports CFD engineer, who has worked within the Centre for Sports Engineering Research since early 2003 as an aerodynamics and reverse engineering specialist. Since joining CSER Dr Hart has provided engineering consultancy services in these areas to a wide range of clients working with both commercial international companies, and with British elite athletes and teams.
Dr Hart has previously worked with British teams, such as British Cycling, and athletes in their preparations for the Athens, Torino, and Beijing Olympic games. He recently worked with British winter teams, in particular British Skeleton Bob Sled, as part of the UK Sport funded Innovation Program in preparation for Vancouver 2010. British Skeleton took the only British medal at the Vancouver games, a gold for women's skeleton athlete Amy Williams. He is currently working closely with Badminton England on product development, funded under the Sport England Innovation Fund.
Background
- Fluids flow analyst specialising in the use of computational fluid dynamics.
- Experience of reverse engineering using non contact laser scanning systems.
Skills
- CFD
- Aerodynamics / hydrodynamics
- Non contact laser scanning and reverse engineering
- Computer-aided design (CAD)
Research interests
- Fluid analysis in sports
- Winter sliding sports
- Transition on sports balls
Selected publications
Hart, J.H., Allen, T. and Holroyd, M. (2010) 'Downhill skateboard aerodynamics', Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport - Engineering Emotion, Vol. 2, pp 2523-2528, Vienna.
Allen, T., Hart, J., Spurr, J., Haake, S.J. and Goodwill, S.R. (2010) 'Validated dynamic analysis of real sports equipment using finite element; a case study using tennis rackets', Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport - Engineering Emotion, Vol. 2, pp 3275-3280, Vienna.
Larmen, R., Turnock, S. and Hart, J. (2008) 'Mechanics of the Bob Skeleton and analysis of the variation in performance at the St. Moritz World Championship of 2007', Proceedings of 7th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport, Vol. 2, pp 117-125.
Hart, J.H., Haake, S.J., Gazzara, R. and Pezzato, M. (2007) 'Improved aerodynamic design of tennis racket frames', Tennis Science and Technology, 3, pp 121-127 (Ed S. Miller and J. Capel-Davis).
Rowson, J., Yoxall, A., and Hart, J.H. (2007) 'Modelling capping of 28 mm beverage closures using finite element analysis', Packing Technology and Science, Vol. 21, Issue 5, pp 287-296.
Hart, J.H., Curtis, D. and Haake, S.J. (2006) 'Computational Fluid Dynamic analysis of a water ski jumper', Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport, (Eds. EF Moritz and SJ Haake) Munich, Germany, Vol. 1, pp 401-406, ISBN 387-31773-2.
Lukes, R.A., Hart, J.H., Chin, S.B. and Haake, S.J. (2005) 'The role and validation of CFD applied to cycling', Fluent User Group Meeting, Warwick, UK, pp 65-75.
Lukes, R.A., Hart, J.H., Chin, S.B. and Haake, S.J. (2005) 'Validation of computational fluid dynamics applied to aerodynamic flows in sport with specific application to cycling', Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Congress on Sports Technology (Eds. Subic, A.J. and Ujihashi, S.) Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, pp 286-291, ISBN 0-646-45025-5.
Hart, J.H, Curtis D., Hamilton, N.D.R and Haake, S.J. (2004) 'Scanning large geometries for use in computational fluid dynamic analysis', Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport, UC Davis, California, (Eds. Hubbard, M., Mehta, R.D. and Pallis. J.), pp 601-607, ISBN 0-9547861-0-6.
Lukes, R.A., Hart, J.H., Chin, S.B. and Haake, S.J. (2004) 'The aerodynamics of mountain bicycles: The role of computational fluid dynamics', Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport, (Eds. M. Hubbard, R.D. Mehta and J.M. Pallis), U.C. Davis, USA, Vol. 1, pp 104-110, ISBN 0-9547861-0-6
Bullough, W.A., Hart J.H., and Chin, S.B. (2003) 'Comparative studies: CFD, experimental and analytical techniques in the fluids laboratory', International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, Vol. 31, Issue 2, pp 150-159.
