PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Real-Time Data Assimilation for Multi-Physics Flows Imperial College London in United Kingdom

[Full tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of £23,805 for Home, EU and International students.] This fully funded PhD studentship is based in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London and is supervised by Dr. Andrea Nóvoa . The project addresses a core challenge in engineering simulation: how to combine imperfect physical models with sparse, noisy measurements when operating conditions are changing quickly. The research will develop bias-aware real-time data assimilation me...

PhD opportunity in Optimal Perturbations in Turbulent Flows at the University of Southampton , Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. This project sits at the intersection of fluid mechanics , applied mathematics , dynamical systems , chaos theory , and computational physics . The research asks which disturbances produce the largest response in a turbulent flow, and aims to develop mathematical and computational methods to study amplification along evolving turbulent trajectories rather t...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in high-fidelity CFD for fan/OGVs broadband noise modelling , hosted in the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Propulsion Systems Noise at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) . This project focuses on aeroacoustics , computational fluid dynamics , fluid mechanics , and mathematical modelling for Ultra High Bypass Ratio (UHBR) aeroengines . The research will use Large Eddy Simulation (LES) or Detached Eddy Simulation...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in Scientific Machine Learning for Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics . This project focuses on Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and their use as efficient alternatives to traditional computational fluid dynamics methods. The research aims to develop and optimise scientific machine learning approaches for problems in fluid mechanics and hydraulics , including fast flood modelling, alternative Navier-Stokes solvers, and fluid-structure interacti...

PhD studentship at the University of Arizona on DNS of hypersonic boundary-layer transition . The project uses high-fidelity Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) to study stability and laminar-turbulent transition in boundary layers at hypersonic speeds ( M = 4 to 14 ). Research topics include the physical mechanisms governing the linear and nonlinear stages of transition, breakdown to turbulence, and the investigation of promising flow-control methods using high-fidelity DNS. The position is well...