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The fourth cohort of CDT students presented a stand of 'unusual and exciting fluids' at the Be Curious public engagement festival at the University of Leeds on Saturday 17th March. This annual event attracts thousands of attendees, and allows the students to engage the general public in their research. Find out more information about the...
All of our CDT students have the opportunity to attend placements with industrial or academic partners over the course of their studies. Here we hear from a few of our CDT students who have undertaken a placement. Inna Gorbatenko In November 2016, I completed a two week placement with Shell Global Solutions at their technical...
We are pleased to announce that CDT student Fryderyk Wilczynski is the winner of the NAG Prize for the best performance in the MSc component of our integrated MSc/PhD Fluid Dynamics programme in cohort two. Fryderyk is now undertaking a PhD project on modelling filaments produced by magnetically confined plasmas. Read more about the prizes awarded by...
Hannah Kreczak had a paper accepted for publication as a Regular Article in Physical Review E. This paper presents a computational study of a simple one-dimensional map with dynamics composed of stretching, permutations of equally sized cells, and diffusion.
CDT student Megan Bickle talks about her experience at Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers (RISE) training run by EPSRC. “I recently started a PhD in atmospheric science, researching the intensity of storms in the West African Monsoon. I find this topic incredibly interesting; getting to grips with the intricacies of such a complicated system as the weather...
A comprehensive new handbook about weather forecasting in West Africa could help safeguard lives and resources in the region. Meteorology of Tropical West Africa: The Forecasters' Handbook was coordinated by the University of Leeds in collaboration with international researchers and meteorological agencies to help the region’s weather forecasters. It results from the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary...
Over 150 students, academic staff and industry partners attended the EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) Poster Event on the afternoon of 24th May 2017. Students from the following five CDTs exhibited their MSc team project and PhD project posters: Bioenergy Complex Particulate Products & Processes (CP3) Fluid Dynamics Integrated Tribology Tissue Engineering & Regenerative...
The third cohort of students presented a range of activities at the Be Curious public engagement event at the University of Leeds earlier this year. All of our students get the opportunity to take part in CDT arranged outreach events, and are able to take the initiative to join and lead activities independently. Images shown...
Congratulations to CDT student, Robert Kelly, who won a prize for coming in 2nd place in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) student poster competition. The competition is held annually at the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, which this year took place in Houston, Texas. Robert won $1,500 and the awards are sponsored by ExxonMobil. Robert’s...
A paper based on the MSc group project of Inna Gorbatenko, Evaldas Greiciunas, James Hall and Jenny Wong has been published in the Journal of Rheology. This paper describes the design and operation of the Rayleigh Ohnesorge jetting extensional rheometer (ROJER), which enables measurement of very short relaxation times of low viscosity complex fluids such...