PhD Studentship: CFD of Particle-Based Long-Duration Energy Storage Systems The University of Manchester in United Kingdom

[Tax-free annual stipend of £21,805 for 2026/27 at the UKRI rate, subject to annual uplift, plus full tuition fees covered.] PhD Studentship at The University of Manchester: Dynamic Analysis of Particle-Based Long-Duration Energy Storage Systems. This 3.5-year doctoral project sits at the intersection of mechanical engineering, heat transfer, thermal engineering, energy storage, particle dynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and physics-informed artificial intelligence. It is designed fo...

PhD Studentship: Development of a Digital Twin for Smart Sustainable Steel Section Production This PhD studentship is based at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom , within the Advanced Steel Research Centre at WMG . The project sits with the Digital Twins team and focuses on building a digital twin for steel section production , combining empirical modelling, finite element analysis, and machine learning to predict microstructural evolution and mechanical properties across the steelm...

The University of Nottingham’s Faculty of Engineering is offering a PhD studentship on sustainable aviation fuel thermochemical modelling , conducted in partnership with Airbus. The project addresses challenges affecting the adoption of sustainable aviation fuels by examining their thermophysical and thermochemical behaviour under conditions typical of aircraft fuel systems. The research will investigate how heat transfer, fuel chemistry, and physical behaviour interact. You will use computation...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter in Multiscale Scientific Machine Learning Digital Twins for High-Torque Electric Propulsion under Extreme Duty Cycles . This studentship sits at the intersection of electric propulsion, scientific machine learning, and digital-twin development for demanding heavy-duty applications such as maritime vessels, mining equipment, and off-highway machinery. The project addresses a key challenge for zero-e...

The University of Greenwich is offering a PhD opportunity on Adaptive Human–AI Collaboration for Decision-Making under Uncertainty and Risk: A Digital Twin-Enabled Engineering Framework . The research will explore how humans and artificial intelligence can collaborate adaptively when decisions involve uncertainty and risk. A central element of the project is the application of digital twin technology to develop an engineering framework for modelling, analysing and supporting decision-making in c...