Managing Director, Flow Science UK Ltd
Mark Keating is the Managing Director of Flow Science UK which is owned by Flow Science Inc, developers of the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software suite of FLOW-3D products for the last 40 years. This includes the HYDRO product for the water/wastewater industry.
Mark became an IMechE member in 1993 and has been involved in modelling and simulation first degree graduation in Mechanical Engineering in 1995 at Nottingham Trent University. He went on to study for his MPhil & PhD in industrial gas turbines investigating novel blade heat transfer and became chartered (CEng) in 2000. Since 2001 Mark has held technical, commercial, marketing and management roles revolving around major commercial simulation software vendors (most significantly, 16 years with Ansys).
Mark has been a STEM ambassador since 2019 and in 2022 completed his Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) course. Mark sits on the NAFEMS UK steering committee as well as a number of NAFEMS working groups (CFD, optimisation, metal additive manufacturing etc) and IMechE Thermo-Fluids Group Board and is an enthusiastic advocate of the adoption of simulation technologies. He is also the publicity officer for the IMechE Nottinghamshire/Derby Area Committee.