Dr Laura Brooks

Biography/ Background

March 2012 - Current: Adjunct lecturer in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide.

January 2010 - March 2012: Lecturer in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide.

July 2008 - December 2009: Postdoctoral Fellow in Ambient Noise Seismology, Institute of Geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. John Townend).

July 2006 - June 2008: Fulbright Scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA (Supervisor: Dr Peter Gersoft).

Jan 2004 - July 2008: Postgraduate Student in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide (Principal Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Anthony Zander).

 

Qualifications

PhD in Engineering (University of Adelaide) - 2008

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honours (University of Adelaide) - 2003

Awards & Achievements

South Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2011)

Winner: South Australia Channel 9 Young Achiever Awards, Science and Technology Category (2011).

Finalist: South Australia Channel 9 Young Achiever Awards, Science and Technology Category (2007, 2008 and 2010).

2006 Fulbright Postgraduate Award in Engineering sponsored by Clough Ltd (host institution: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California, USA).

DSTO Underwater Acoustics Supplementary Scholarship (2006-2007).

University of Adelaide School of Mechanical Engineering Level 4 Demonstrator of the Year (2006).

Australian Acoustical Society President's Prize: awarded to the best technical paper presented at the Australian Acoustical Society Conference by a member of the society (2005).

Selection by Engineers Australia for inclusion in the list of Australia's Most Inspiring Young Engineers (2005).

University of Adelaide School of Mechanical Engineering Level 3 Demonstrator of the Year (2005).

Australian Postgraduate Award (2004-2008).

University Medal for "outstanding academic achievement" (2003).

Esso/Mobil Academic Excellence Award (2003).

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers: The Frederic Barnes Waldron Best Student Prize Australian Region (2003).

IEE Prize for the Outstanding Female Student in Engineering at the University of Adelaide (2002).

Teaching Interests

I have co-ordinated and taught courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Undergraduate:

MECH ENG 3104 Space Vehicle Design (2010, 2011)

MECH ENG 4106 Aerospace Propulsion (2010, 2011)

Postgraduate:

MECH ENG 7053 Aerospace Propulsion (2010, 2011)

MECH ENG 7073 Space Vehicle Design (2011)

 

Research Interests

I am an active member of the Flow and Noise Research Group and Aerospace, Acoustics, and Autonomous Systems Research Group within the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide.

My research interests encompass the following: Acoustics, Aeroacoustics, Vibration, Seismology, Ocean acoustics, Array Signal Processing, Control.

 

 

Publications

Journal

P. R. Medwell, L. A. Brooks, and R. S. Medwell, "Analysis of the lawn bowl trajectory as a teaching tool for Sports Engineering: Development of a graphical user-interface", Procedia Engineering, Vol. 13, pp. 531-537, 2011.

D. J. Moreau, L. A. Brooks, and C. J. Doolan, "Broadband trailing edge noise from a sharp-edged strut", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129(5), pp. 2820-2829, May 2011.

D. J. Moreau, L. A. Brooks, and C. J. Doolan, "On the aeroacoustic tonal noise generation mechanism of a sharp-edged plate", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129(4), pp. EL154– EL169, April 2011.

*Reprinted by invitation: E. J. G. Arcondoulis, C. J. Doolan, A. C. Zander, and L. A. Brooks, "A review of trailing edge noise generated by airfoils at low to moderate Reynolds number", Acoustics Bulletin, Vol. 36(2), pp. 33–40, 2011.

E. J. G. Arcondoulis, C. J. Doolan, A. C. Zander, and L. A. Brooks, "A review of trailing edge noise generated by airfoils at low to moderate Reynolds number", Acoustics Australia, Vol. 38(3), pp. 135–139, December 2010.

L. A. Brooks, J. Townend, P. Gerstoft, S. Bannister, and L. Carter "Fundamental and higher-mode Rayleigh wave characteristics of ambient seismic noise in New Zealand," Geophys. Res. Lett. 36(1), L23303, December 2009.

L. A. Brooks and P. Gerstoft, "Green’s function approximation from cross-correlation of active sources in the ocean," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126(1), pp. 46-55, July 2009.

L. A. Brooks and P. Gerstoft, "Green's function approximation from cross-correlations of 20-100 Hz noise during a tropical storm," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125(2), pp. 723-734, February 2009.

L. A. Brooks, P. Gerstoft, and D. P. Knobles, "Multichannel array diagnosis using noise cross-correlation," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124(4), pp. EL203– EL209, October 2008.

J. Traer, P. Gerstoft, P. D. Bromirski, W. S. Hodgkiss, and L. A. Brooks, "Shallow-water seismo-acoustic noise generation by Tropical Storms Ernesto and Florence," J. Acoust. Soc. Am.124(3), pp. EL170–E EL176, September 2008.

L. A. Brooks and P. Gerstoft, “Ocean acoustic interferometry,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121(6), pp. 3377–3385, June 2007.

L. A. Brooks, R. C. Morgans, and C. H. Hansen, "Learning acoustics through the boundary element method: an inexpensive graphical interface and associated tutorials", Acoustics Australia, Vol. 33(3), pp. 89–95, December 2005.

Conference

D. J. Moreau, L. A. Brooks and C. J. Doolan, "Flat plate self-noise reduction at low-to-moderate Reynolds number with trailing edge serrations", In proceedings of Acoustics 2011, Gold Coast, Australia, 2 - 4 Nov, 2011. 

C. Albarracin Gonzalez, C. J. Doolan, C. H. Hansen, L. A. Brooks, "Turbulent trailing edge noise estimation using a RANS-based statistical noise model", In Proc. Acoustics 2011, Gold Coast, Australia, Nov 2 - 4 2011.

D. J. Moreau, L. A. Brooks and C. J. Doolan, "Empirical study of the tonal noise radiated by a sharp-edged flat plate at low-to-moderate Reynolds number", In proceedings of Acoustics 2011, Gold Coast, Australia, 2 - 4 Nov, 2011. 

N. M. Thota, L. A. Brooks, D. J. Moreau, A. C. Zander and C. J. Doolan, "Analysis of noise generated by a wall mounted finite-length airfoil", In proceedings of Acoustics 2011, Gold Coast, Australia, 2 - 4 Nov, 2011.

E. J. G Arcondoulis, C. J. Doolan, L. A. Brooks, A. C. Zander, "A modification to logarithmic spiral beamforming arrays for aeroacoustic applications", In Proc. 17th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Portland Oregon, June 5 - 8 2011.

E. J. G Arcondoulis, C. J. Doolan, L. A. Brooks, A. C. Zander, "Airfoil trailing edge noise source location at low to moderate Reynolds number", In Proc. 17th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Portland Oregon, June 5 - 8 2011.

D.J. Moreau, L.A. Brooks and C.J. Doolan, "Experimental investigation of broadband trailing edge noise from sharp-edged struts", In Proc. 17th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Portland Oregon, 5 - 8 June, 2011.

D. J. Moreau, L. A. Brooks, and C. J. Doolan, "Empirical study of flat plate trailing edge flow and noise, 14th Australian International Aerospace Congress incorporating the 3rd Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology", Feb. 28-Mar. 3 2011.

D. J. Moreau, C. J. Doolan, M. R. Tetlow, M. Roberts, and L. A. Brooks, "The flow and noise generated by a sharp trailing edge", 17th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 5-9 2010.

L. A. Brooks and P. Gerstoft, "Hydrophone self-localisation using travel times estimated from ocean noise crosscorrelations", In. Proc. 20th International Congress on Acoustics, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 23-27 2010.

E. J. G. Arcondoulis, C. J. Doolan, A. C. Zander, and L. A. Brooks, "Design and calibration of a small aeroacoustic beamformer", In. Proc. 20th International Congress on Acoustics, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 23-27 2010.

D. J. Moreau, M. R. Tetlow, L. A. Brooks, and C. J. Doolan, Acoustic analysis of at plate trailing edge noise, In. Proc. 20th International Congress on Acoustics, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 23-27 2010.

L. A. Brooks, J. Townend, P. Gerstoft, S. Bannister, and L. Carter, Characterising the New Zealand ambient seismic noise field: an oceanographic interpretation of western North Island spectra and beamforming results, In. Proc. Acoustics 2009, Nov. 23-25 2009.

L. A. Brooks, J. Townend, Y. Behr, P. Gerstoft, and S. Bannister, Investigation of the spatial and temporal characteristics of the New Zealand seismic noise field (A), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 125,(4), p.2536, April 2009.

L. A. Brooks and P. Gerstoft, Experimental active source ocean acoustic interferometry (A), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 125,(4), p.2536, April 2009.

L. A. Brooks and P. Gerstoft, Extracting Green's functions from noise correlation of SW06 data (A), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123,(5), p.3214, May 2008.

J. Traer, P. Gerstoft, L. A. Brooks, W. S. Hodgkiss, and D. P. Knobles, Low-frequency acoustic signature of hurricane Ernesto (A), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 123,(5), p.3624, May 2008.

L. A. Brooks and P. Gerstoft, Green's function retrieval through ocean acoustic interferometry (A), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 121,(5), p.3102, May 2007.

L. A. Brooks and P. Gerstoft, Ocean acoustic interferometry experiment, In. Proc. ICSV 14 Cairns, Australia, Jul. 9-12 2007.

L. A. Brooks and C. D. Kestell, Ensuring the Continued Quality of Vertically Integrated Student Engineering Projects, In. Proc. 17th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 10-13 2006.

L. A. Brooks, M. R. F. Kidner, A. C. Zander, C. H. Hansen, and Z. Y. Zhang, Techniques for the extraction of the waveguide invariant from interference patterns in spectrograms, In. Proc. Acoustics 2006, Nov. 20-22 2006.

L. A. Brooks, M. R. F. Kidner, A. C. Zander, C. H. Hansen, and Z. Y. Zhang, Striation processing of spectrogram data, In. Proc. ICSV 13 Vienna, Austria, Jul. 2-6 2006.

L. A. Brooks, R. C. Morgans, and C. H. Hansen, Learning acoustics through the boundary element method: an inexpensive graphical interface and associated tutorials, In. Proc. Acoustics 2005, Busselton WA Australia, Nov. 9-11 2005.

L. A. Brooks, A. C. Zander, and C. H. Hansen, Investigation into the feasibility of using a parametric array control source in an active noise control system, In. Proc. Acoustics 2005, Busselton WA Australia, Nov. 9-11 2005.

Professional Associations

Australian Acoustical Society: South Australian Division Committee Member

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: Adelaide Section Committee Member

Entry last updated: Thursday, 24 May 2012