Fundamental Studies of Lifted and Attached Jet Flames in Cross Flows
The jet flames (an example in Figure 1), is of practical importance in gas turbines, engines, furnaces and hazardous environments. In a flare stack with...
Projects: 2019
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 mechanics of polymer melt filtration
Sequentially stretched film casting is an essential industrial process for the manufacture of thin polymer films used for a wide range of packaging, imaging, electronic,...
Hardware agnostic multi-layer abstraction based solver for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Computational scientists are typically not expert programmers and thus have to work with easy to use programming languages. However, they have very high-performance requirements due...
FIERCE: Fast IntERactive simulation for Crowds and Environments
Have you ever felt uncomfortable or suffocated in crowds in a shopping mall? Do you know how fast an airborne contagious disease can spread in...
Dynamics of planetary mantles: the effect of realistic viscosity
Convection in rocky or icy planetary mantles controls the evolution of the terrestrial planets and many of the moons in the solar system. This convection...
Realising reduced order models for heat transfer problems via Data Assimilation and Machine Learning
This project is to use data-driven methods and machine learning to derive reduced models for fluid flows. In particular, we shall look at models for...
Investigating boundary layer processes in tropical cyclones in the Met Office operational forecasting model
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....
Air pollution in the urban environment: capturing coupled meso and microscale phenomena and assessment of mitigating city design measures
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...
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...
Flow and Transport in heterogeneous Porous Media: Improving the safety of nuclear waste repositories
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...