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Fluid-structure interaction in the human upper airway

This project will apply state of the art experimental diagnostic methods to analyse fluid structure interaction in model reconstructions of the human upper airway. more...

Supervisor(s): Kourmatzis, Agisilaos (Dr)

Turbulent transport of algae in stably stratified rivers: a computational fluid dynamics study

In stably stratified shear flows, turbulent mixing is suppressed by the background stratification. In rivers, these conditions allow buoyant cyanobacteria to float to the surface an more...

Supervisor(s): Williamson, Nicholas (Dr), Armfield, Steven (Professor)

Turbulent mixing in stably stratified flow: a laboratory and field based study

In stably stratified shear flows, turbulent mixing is suppressed by the background stratification. This project will examine this dynamic using laboratory experiments and field meas more...

Supervisor(s): Williamson, Nicholas (Dr), Armfield, Steven (Professor)

Compressible Turbulent Mixing

A fundamental understanding of compressible turbulent mixing is critical to advancing technologies in aeronautical, automotive, clean energy and acoustics. This project aims to deve more...

Supervisor(s): Thornber, Ben (Dr)

Controlled atomisation of liquid sprays

This PhD project will look at the development, validation and application of computational models for the atomisation of liquid sprays. The successful candidate will work with novel more...

Supervisor(s): Cleary, Matthew (Associate Professor)

Modelling of supersonic combustion

This PhD project will look at the development, validation and application of computational models for the supersonic combustion. The successful candidate will work with novel physic more...

Supervisor(s): Cleary, Matthew (Associate Professor)

Miscellaneous topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

The project aims at improving modelling and understanding of global ocean processes that include currents, turbulence and mixing. more...

Supervisor(s): Chabchoub, Amin (Associate Professor)

Understanding the growth of hydrodynamic instabilities in Inertial Confinement Fusion

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the USA has managed to achieve a fusion fuel gain of 1 in landmark experiments. However, the targeted gain is substantially higher than this more...

Supervisor(s): Thornber, Ben (Dr)

Experimental analysis of dry powder inhalers for pulmonary drug delivery

This project will apply state of the art experimental diagnostic techniques for the quantitative analysis of dry powder inhalers (DPIs). The project will focus on improving our fund more...

Supervisor(s): Kourmatzis, Agisilaos (Dr)

Development of next-generation fuel delivery devices for thermal energy conversion

This project will apply state of the art experimental diagnostic and computational methods to analyse the potential of using electrostatic charge as a means to delivery fuels in mic more...

Supervisor(s): Kourmatzis, Agisilaos (Dr)