Droplet spreading on immiscible liquid layers
The technical challenges associated with droplets depositing and spreading on oily-soft surfaces is of significant interest to many industries including printing, paint and agriculture. However,...
Projects
Please note that the PhD projects listed are examples of projects offered to current CDT students and as such are not generally available to prospective students.
Detailed microphysics in a Lagrangian cloud model
The turbulent behaviour of clouds is responsible for many of the uncertainties regarding the timing and intensity of precipitation in weather and climate models. One...
Developing improved time stepping schemes for nonlinear phase change models
Phase change problems occur in a large number of practical applications and processes from the food industry through to heavy engineering. In particular, many industrial...
Coupling of 3D hydrodynamic and biokinetic growth models for recovery of energy from the wastewater treatment processes
Wastewater treatment processes have high energy-costs and are challenging to optimise due to the complex coupled processes occurring. In England and Wales over 10 billion...
Building a realistic model of Earth's magnetic field using constrained dynamics
A proper understanding of how the geomagnetic field is generated in Earth’s liquid core, by the so-called geodynamo, remains one of the greatest outstanding problems...
Modeling turbulent mixing layers with multifluid subgrid physics
Many flows are affected by mixing instabilities such as Kelvin-Helmholtz, Richtmyer-Meshkov and Rayleigh-Taylor, arising at the interface of two stratified fluids of different density. In...
Is Hydrogen Safe for Cities?
The decarbonisation of heat will be a critical part of the UK’s plans to meet the 80% CO2 reduction targets set out in the UK...
Robust Optimisation of Microfluidic Flow Systems
Current designs of the vast array of microfluidic flow systems used throughout biology, chemistry and engineering are based on processing small volumes of liquid in...
Cryogenic drill cooling
Effective drill cooling is essential in order to ensure adequate tool life in critical applications. This project will develop new experimental and computational techniques for...
Modelling Bioaerosol Dispersion due to Shower Heads
We are all familiar with mould in showers and bathrooms, but where does this come from? There is increasing evidence that the shower plays a...