Swimming in complex fluids
This project will address an open problem regarding the locomotion of biological swimmers, a problem of widespread importance throughout the animal kingdom. While many fish...
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.
Theoretical analysis of fluid flow in microfluidic biomedical devices
Microfluidic devices are promising to revolutionise the biomedical industry from rapid disease diagnostics and modelling to high-throughput drug screening and assessment. Much of the engineering...
Transient models to assess transmission and control of airborne infection risks in a respiratory ward
This project aims to develop new models to simulate the risk of airborne infection in healthcare environments and the effectiveness of control strategies. Airborne infection...
Vascular flow simulation directly from medical images to support virtual treatment planning
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations can assist in treatment planning for cardio/cerebrovascular interventions. This project involves the development of fully-automatic images-to-simulation workflows that can be...
Rheology of crosslinked assemblies of flexible fibres in viscous flow
Nature and industry abound with examples of highly porous, fibrous materials embedded in a viscous fluid. Examples include the cellular cytoskeleton, scaffolds for tissue engineering,...
Integrating flow imaging into patient-specific models following myocardial infarction
Heart failure post myocardial infarction is a worldwide massive burden with an anticipated prevalence increase of 46% before 2030. The main cause of heart failure...
Efficient Cardio-Vascular CFD-enabled 4D Flow MRI to Improve In-Silico Predictions of Post-Surgical Haemodynamics in Individual Patients
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a well-established tool used in many engineering areas and has become the primary method for design and analysis. CFD has...
Computational and experimental evaluation of a novel assistive cardio-vascular device
This project aims to investigate the effectiveness of a novel flow control device to treat single ventricle heart defects, using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations...