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CDT internship 2025

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We are happy to share that our newest work, 'On the Formation and Dynamics of Micro Dew Droplets on Grass: the Role of Epicuticular Wax' is now available open access in Small. This is the beginning of an exciting new project that started with our summer intern student Bashra Mahamed and in collaboration with the...

Summer Graduation 2025

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Congratulations to our latest group of CDT Fluid Dynamics students who received their PhD qualifications at the summer graduation ceremony in July 2025: Giulia Fedrizzi Ciara Higham Alex Lang Rose Collet Jacob Anderson Julie Frank Bradley Davy Fergus Shone Joseph Bennett Our CDT alumni have gone on to embark on new and exciting careers within industry...

Best PhD Presentation Award - ASMO Conference

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Congratulations to CDT student Luke Driver, who received the best PhD presentation award at the ASMO UK13-EU2 Conference. Luke published the following paper from the conference. "Development of a Universal Optimisation Framework for Low Temperature Reaction Kinetics", which is published in Proceedings of the ASMO UK13-EU2 Conference Engineering Design Optimization, Page 41.

Air pollution a 'serious public health threat'

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The report calls on the Government to treat air pollution as a serious and preventable public health threat. Cath Noakes, CDT Co-Director and Professor of Environmental Engineering for Buildings in the School of Civil Engineering, co-authored the report's section on indoor air pollution. She said: “We are calling on policymakers to recognise both outdoor and indoor...

CDT Fluids Symposium Poster Prize Winners 2025

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The annual CDT Fluid Dynamics Symposium took place on Thursday 12th June 2025. The symposium was a great success, facilitating cross-disciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange within the fluid dynamics community, spanning both academic and industrial sectors. CDT student Chris Jackson was awarded the first place poster prize and Ahmed Mahmood was awarded the runner up poster...

Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics launches FutureLearn course

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Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics has launched a brand new FutureLearn course in fluid dynamics, prepared by Dr Duncan Borman, Prof Cath Noakes and Prof Juliane Schwendike. It is free to access for two weeks. Available to buy if you wish to retain it longer term.  Fluid Dynamics in Practice: Applications to Real-World Challenges  Explore...

A fruitful industry partnership

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Six research students on the EPSRC CDT Fluid Dynamics and EPSRC CDT Future Fluid Dynamics have been, or are being, supported by Sellafield Ltd through their Academic Centre of Expertise for Sludge (Particulates and Fluids) at the University of Leeds.  This Centre is focused on providing support to Sellafield Ltd’s long-term objectives of the safe...

Improving early warnings of thunderstorms

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Meteorological experts and students are working together to improve early warnings of severe thunderstorms in Southern Africa. Professor Doug Parker and Professor John Marsham in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, are leading a ground-breaking weather forecasting ‘testbed’ as part of a project to create new early warning systems for vulnerable communities in...

EPSRC CDT Future Fluid Dynamics Research Internships 2025

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Applications are open for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Fluid Dynamics Research Internships, which will take place over summer 2025. Our Research Internships allow prospective postgraduate researchers to gain first-hand experience of the research environment in fluid dynamics at the University of Leeds. This experience will assist them to help informed decisions...

CDT Prize Winners 2024

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Congratulations to the following CDT students who were awarded prizes at our annual CDT Celebration Event in December. Michael Macraild and Jacob Perez were both jointly awarded the best paper prize for the following publications: MacRaild, M., Sarrami-Foroushani, A., Lassila, T. and Frangi, A.F., 2024. Reduced order modelling of intracranial aneurysm flow using proper orthogonal...