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.
Each year tropical cyclones cause enormous amounts of damage due to their destructive winds, heavy precipitation and their effects on the sea, e.g. storm surges....
The harmful impact of atmospheric pollution on human health in East and Southeast Asia is widely acknowledged, and will be increasingly important as mega-cities continue...
Our ability to confidently predict the safety of a nuclear waste repository depends on our ability to correctly model the interaction of fluids residing in...
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...
Earth’s jet streams control many features of weather and climate in the extratropics including in the UK and Europe. Most winter weather extremes in these...
Understanding the effect of airflow in enclosed/indoor environments is of great interest due to its close relationship to occupant’s safety, thermal comfort, and energy efficiency....
Density currents, driven by the density contrast between two fluids, are an important class of geophysical flow, pertinent to atmospheric, terrestrial, deep marine and inner...
The design of hydraulic infrastructure and in particular reservoir spillways is an area of significant importance from a safety and economic perspective (consider recent failure...
In August 2013, preliminary tests were undertaken in which a working proof-of-principle was established of the novel wave-energy device, in a 1.2m by 0.2m x...
Droplets are a fascinating and challenging area of fluid dynamics. Their interactions with each other, with surfaces, films and particles, are important to numerous natural...