Droplet Collision Dynamics
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...
Projects: 2020
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.
Drag Reduction on Natural Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Various micro/nano-patterned superhydrophobic surfaces have proved effective in significantly reducing the frictional loss on solid boundaries, thanks to providing stable Cassie wetting conditions in which...
Battery Explosion Safety Management
Battery tends to be unstable and catches the fire easily when overheating occurs. The common reasons causing overheating are internal/external short circuit, mechanical deformation and...
Transient Heat Load Management for Future Advanced Aircrafts
Future advanced military aircraft engineers face an appreciable technical challenge to design Thermal Management System (TMS) of adequate capacity within the available space. Heat Exchangers...
Self-aeration and complex flow on hydraulic structures (e.g. stepped spillways)
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 incidents at Toddbook,...
Morphodynamics of sinuous seafloor channels: using LBM to couple fluid dynamics to landscape evolution
Fluid-solid multiphase flows in environmental systems repeatedly develop similar landform patterns – understanding why is a fundamental challenge. Modelling of such flows is complicated by the range of...
Modelling the impact of future offshore wind farm developments on the regional weather and wind resource
There is currently 18GW of offshore wind energy installed in Europe. To achieve the European Commission’s target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, an estimated increase to...
Hydrodynamics of pollutant and organic carbon settling: implications for dispersal and concentration in oceans
Understanding the transport, deposition, and burial processes of anthropogenic pollutants (e.g. micro- and nanoplastics), and organic carbon, are major challenges to predicting marine pollution hotspots and quantifying blue carbon stocks. Burial...
Fusion Technology: Experiments with Digital Twinning
The project will combine accurate experimental work in a brand new laboratory with modelling using the state-of-the-art finite element software. The newly equipped lab will form part of UKAEA's new...
Erosional jets, the ultimate challenge in coupled flow-particle dynamics: Application to industrial post operational clean out (POCO)
Impinging jets are used in a wide range of process engineering applications; such as tunnelling operations, paint spraying and cavitation drilling. Liquid jets are also used...