Oscillatory flow in tapered thermal buffer tubes
In a group of devices, such as thermo-acoustic engines and pulse tube coolers, oscillatory flows are used to achieve power generation and heat pumping or...
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.
Fluid and Particulate Motion in Printed Drops
This project will study the fluid motions within drops deposited by inkjet printers, through the use and development of numerical methods and mathematical models of...
Multiphase flow in anisotropic heterogeneous porous media
The fall in the reserve replacement rate means that enhanced oil recovery (EOR) will become increasingly important. Improving EOR requires a thorough understanding of capillary...
Improved numerical models for gas flow in shale
Shale gas has rapidly changed the energy market in the USA and is poised to do so elsewhere in the world. Despite this success there...
Development of multi-phase and multi-physics modelling approaches for the cavity flushing after underground coal gasification (UCG) operations and for the potential CO2 storage
The main objectives of the proposed research is to develop fully coupled multiphysics models to provide the capability of addressing the issues that arise from...
Rates of chaotic mixing in models of fluid devices
Recent results of RS, using ergodic theory of dynamical systems, and a study of return time dynamics, determine the rate of fluid mixing in (very...
Development of multi-phase and multi-physics modelling approaches for the cavity flushing after underground coal gasification (UCG) operations and for the potential CO2 storage
The main objectives of the proposed research is to develop fully coupled multiphysics models to provide the capability of addressing the issues that arise from...
The Fluid Mechanics of Printed Electronics
There has been a massive growth in the area of printed electronics – where electronic circuits and devices are printed onto the supporting substrate using,...
Modelling filaments produced by magnetically confined plasmas
Heat and mass loss at the edge of magnetically confined plasmas is seen to be associated with the intermittent ejection of filaments of denser and...
Immersed Computing, from data to fluid flows
The majority of energy consumed by the electromechanical and digital infrastructure that makes up the Internet is converted in to heat. Effective removal of this...