Aerosol generation from liquid droplet impact on solid surfaces
Liquid jets are widely encountered from ink jet printing to ‘big industry’ which frequently use high velocity jets to decontaminate surfaces (remove radionuclides or heavy...
Projects: 2021
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.
Predicting settling behaviour of asymmetric particle using image analysis and machine learning
Settling of solid particles in fluids are seen in numerous industrial and natural situations, ranging from pharmaceutical processing to sedimentation in oceans. Whilst empirical and...
Ignitability, Quenching and Deflagration-to-Detonation-Transition (DDT) of hydrogen-air mixtures
Due to radiation and wide use of reactive metals, the nuclear industry has always to be mindful of the generation of flammable gases, principally hydrogen....
Flow and Transport in heterogeneous Porous Media: Improving the safety assessment 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...
Extreme value theory and Quantitative Poincare recurrence in fluid mixing problems
The importance and relevance of fluid mixing in modern science is clear, both from the range of industrial and environmental situations in which it appears,...
Astrochemistry, Supersonic Flows, and Additive Manufacturing: A Design Optimisation Framework for Laval nozzles in Uniform Supersonic Chemical Reactors
This project aims to deliver a framework for rationally designing Laval nozzles used in Uniform Supersonic Chemical Reactors to measure the chemical kinetics of interstellar...
Physics informed machine learning for fluid dynamics
This project will investigate the use of deep learning techniques, coupled with more conventional numerical modelling approaches, in order to develop new computational algorithms for fluid flow problems. The...
A revolutionary new Lagrangian model for convective clouds
This project will contribute to the development of a revolutionary new cloud model, MPIC (Moist Parcel-In-Cell), for the simulation of convective precipitation and cloud-climate feedbacks....
The Formation of large-scale vortices on Jupiter and Saturn
The two images above show large-scale flows structures in the polar regions of Jupiter (L) and Saturn (R). These arise from the interaction between convection...
Dynamics of mesoscale convective systems
NASA image of organised deep convective storms over Africa Tropical weather and climate is dominated by deep convection (“thunderstorms”). Organised systems of convection (mesocale convective...