Wetropolis flood investigator
Fig. 1. Showcasing Wetropolis at the Global Flood Partnership meeting, Sept. 2022, Leeds. Organised by Mark Trigg et al. See also Youtube video exploring wetropolis,...
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.
Water-Energy Nexus in Air Entrained Pressurised Pipelines and Air Control/Removal Strategies
The water sector is facing crucial challenges because of climate change and population growth, compromising serviceability. The demand for water and energy is expected to...
Surrogate-based optimisation for fluid dynamic (FSI) systems" in the theme "underpinning methods in fluid dynamics
This project aims to develop cutting edge numerical methods for optimisation of design and control in fluid-structure interaction systems, with application to understanding of C....
Real-time control and validation of a novel rogue wave-energy device
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...
Predictive modelling of nucleate boiling in impacting droplets for high heat flux spray cooling applications
This project seeks to overcome current obstacles to predictive modelling of nucleate boiling in droplets impacting on realistic non-uniform heated surfaces. The key development will...
Predicting settling behaviour of asymmetric particle using image analysis and machine learning
Physics-informed deep learning and field experiments for dynamic reactive fluids (carbon, nutrients and water flow) in agricultural soils
Artificial Intelligence have attracted considerable attention from researchers in environmental fluid dynamics over the last decade, especially Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) which can provide a...
Physics informed machine learning applied to geothermal energy
Decarbonising space heating is a central focus of the UK’s goal to attain net zero emissions by 2050. One promising source of zero-carbon heat is...
Numerical Simulation of Polymer-Particle Adsorption and Flocculation Dynamics for Nuclear Waste Separations
The addition of small concentrations of high-molecular-weight polymers to particle-laden flows to separate non-settling fine solids from aqueous suspensions is a promising method to instigate...
Mixed precision, approximate computing, and data compression for computational fluid dynamics
Figure 1: (a) NVIDIA A100 (source of imge of NVIDIA A100). (b) Turbulent flow simulations using GPUs and LBM-based CFD Computer hardware is changing noticeably...