PhD Studentship in Aeronautics: Turbulence Intermittency in Cloud Physics Imperial College London in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in turbulent boundary layers, junction flows, and experimental aerodynamics . The project, Close Encounters: Interaction of turbulent boundary layers with junctions , is hosted in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton and supervised by Professor Bharath Ganapathisubramani . It investigates how aerodynamic components such as wings, fuselages, trusses, and appendages interact to create complex pressure gra...

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 the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences on optimized vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) arrays , combining surrogate modelling , topology optimization , fluid mechanics , and mathematical modelling . The project aims to develop a multi-scale optimization framework to design VAWTs specifically for array performance, rather than optimizing a single turbine and then placing it in a farm. The research focuses on improving urban wind farm vi...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in Particle-Fluid Interactions in Environmental Flows . This project sits in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics research group and focuses on how fluids and particles interact in major environmental processes such as ocean plastic pollution , air pollution , sediment transport , and coastal erosion . The work may use experimental , theoretical , numerical , or combined approaches depending on the student’s background and interests. You will have ac...

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...