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Radio Emissions from the Edge of our Solar System

The two Voyager spacecraft have observed strong radio waves generated when shocks produced by solar activity cross into the local interstellar medium. This project will develop a de more...

Supervisor(s): Cairns, Iver (Professor)

Ultrasound assessment of cardiac function and haemodynamics in critically ill patients

The use of ultrasound to assess the cardiac function and haemodynamic status in critically ill patients. more...

Supervisor(s): Huang, Stephen (Professor)

Dynamic deformation of polycrystalline metals under impact

The project aims to develop a physics-based crystal plasticity model for predicting the dynamic deformation of polycrystalline metals under the high-strain-rate and shock loading co more...

Supervisor(s): Shen, Luming (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 studies on nonlinear wave hydrodynamics

The project aims at finding new characteristic propagation properties of uni-directional and directional nonlinear waves. more...

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

Modelling of extreme ocean waves

The project aims at modelling and predicting of extreme waves in the ocean. more...

Supervisor(s): Chabchoub, Amin (Associate 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)

The anatomy and physiology of the intertidal marine isopod Cirolana harfordi

The intertidal isopod is a remarkably successful scavenger and predator and yet almost nothing is known about its development, anatomy and physiology, so this animal presents a uniq more...

Supervisor(s): Thomson, Murray (Dr)