Sample projects
Sample project titles
MRes
| Project | Supervisor / Department |
|---|---|
| Single and double particle tracking in Direct Numerical Simulation of a turbulent boundary layer | Dr Sylvain Laizet / Aeronautics |
| New insights into turbulent annular interfacial flows with fluorescence and particle-velocimetry laser-diagnostic techniques | Prof Christos Markides / Chemical Engineering |
| Structural evolution in quasi-static flow of two-dimensional dense granular systems | Dr Rafi Blumenfeld / Earth Science & Engineering (ESE) |
| Electrostatically-induced complex interfacial dynamics | Prof Omar Matar / Chemical Engineering |
| The origin of near-wall streamwise vortices in wall-bounded turbulence: application of generalised optimal perturbation (GOP) theory | Prof Sergei Chernyshenko / Aeronautics |
| Scattering from underwater targets: the effect of metamaterials | Prof Richard Craster / Mathematics and DSTL |
| Capillary forces in multi-phase SPH | Prof Stephen Neethling / ESE |
| Numerical simulation of water sloshing in a rotating tank under low gravity condition | Prof Joaquim Peiro / Aeronautics and European Space Agency |
| Mass transfer phenomena in the lymphatic system | Prof Jimmy Moore / Bioengineering |
| Spectral element methods and dynamic anisotropic mesh adaptations for Formula 1 simulations | Prof Spencer Sherwin / Aeronautics and Dr Gerard Gorman / ESE |
| Hot plumes in Earth's mantle: complexity due to interaction with the mantle transition zone? | Prof Saskia Goes / Earth Science & Engineering |
| Modelling tissue regeneration as an active fluid | Dr Chiu Fan Lee / Bioengineering |
| Design of a flow chamber for testing novel theories relating blood flow to arterial disease | Prof Peter Weinberg / Bioengineering |
| Theoretical and numerical analysis of pulsating flows around bluff bodies | Dr George Papadakis / Aeronautics |
| Mechanical pumping of growth factors into engineered cartilage | Prof Molly Stevens / Materials |
| Penguin-inspired low drag skins for Aquatic Micro Aerial Vehicles | Prof Mirko Kovac / Aeronautics |
| Stochastic swimming of gyrotactic microorganisms in unsteady vortical shear flows | Dr Yongyun Hwang / Aeronautics and Dr Eric Keaveny / Mathematics |
| Reduced order modelling of porous media and pipeline flows with application to oil and gas production | Prof Christopher Pain / ESE |
| Modelling the thermoacoustic stability of a premixed flame in a tube combustor | Prof Xuesong Wu / Mathematics and Prof Aimee Morgans / Aeronautics |
| Reducing the aerodynamic drag of a simplified road vehicle model | Prof Jonathan Morrison / Aeronautics |
| The hydrodynamics of immiscible multi-fluid viscoelastic shear flows | Prof Demetrios Papageorgiou / Mathematics |
| Undulatory locomotion in complex heterogeneous media | Dr Eric Keaveny / Mathematics |
| Direct simulation and modelling of idealised volcanic releases | Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk / Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Met Office |
| Topology optimization of gas turbines internal coolant flows | Dr Francesco Montomoli / Aeronautics |
| Active fluid dynamics for drug delivery into the inner ear | Prof Tobias Reichenbach / Bioengineering |
| A new approach to visualisation and quantification of mixing in large vessels using ultrasound and controlled microbubble destruction | Prof Mengxing Tang / Bioengineering and Prof Peter Vincent / Aeronautics |
| Compressor surge prediction in heavy-duty diesel engines for off-road machine applications | Prof Ricardo Martinez-Botas / Mechanical Engineering |
| Predicting combustion instability in an industrial gas turbine combustor | Prof Aimee Morgans / Aeronautics and Prof Bill Jones / Mechanical Engineering |
| Convection in a curved vertical slot in a horizontal temperature gradient | Prof Jonathan Mestel / Mathematics |
| Flow between concentric, differentially rotating spheres | Prof Dan Moore / Mathematics |
| The effect of shear and normal stress on the flow of engineering fluids | Dr Janet Wong / Mechanical Engineering |
| Controlling fluid flow by sound | Dr James Choi / Bioengineering and Prof Matt Jackson / Earth Science & Engineering |
| Near wall models for large eddy simulation | Prof Bill Jones / Mechanical Engineering |
| Development of parallel meshing for aeronautical applications | Prof Joaquim Peiro / Aeronautics and Aircraft Research Association |
PhD
| Project | Supervisors / Departments |
|---|---|
| Fluid topology optimization and heat transfer | Dr Francesco Montomoli / Aeronautics |
| Crack propagation in the drying of blood drops | Prof Omar Matar / Chemical Engineering and Prof Richard Craster / Mathematics |
| Chemokine transport in and around the lymphatic system | Prof Jimmy Moore / Bioengineering and Prof Joaquim Peiro / Aeronautics |
| Active fluid dynamics for drug delivery into the inner ear | Prof Tobias Reichenbach / Bioengineering and Prof Jonathan Mestel / Mathematics |
| Understanding Circum-Pacific tectonics: Numerical subduction modelling of variable density plates | Prof Saskia Goes / Earth Science & Engineering (ESE) and Prof Richard Craster / Mathematics |
| Active fluid mechanics: Actomyosin networks and tissue regeneration | Dr Chiu Fan Lee / Bioengineering and Dr Gunnar Pruessner / Mathematics |
| Shock waves down the length scales and physiological relevance | Dr Spyros Masouros / Bioengineering and Dr William Proud / Physics |
| Effect of free-stream turbulence on free shear flows | Dr Sylvain Laizet / Aeronautics and Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk / Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) |
| Adjoint methods for thermoacoustic instability | Prof Peter Schmid / Mathematics and Prof Aimee Morgans / Aeronautics |
| Development and application of dynamic mesh optimization for numerical simulation of groundwater flow and contaminant transport | Prof Matt Jackson / ESE and Prof Adrian Butler / CEE |
| Computational and experimental optimization of nutrient transport in mechanically stimulated engineered tissues | Prof Molly Stevens / Materials and Dr Richard Abel / Surgery & Cancer |
| Development and application of hrp-adaptivity for high performance numerical modelling of multiphase flow on unstructured meshes | Prof Christopher Pain / ESE and Prof Omar Matar / Chemical Engineering |
| Gulf stream dynamics with primitive equations | Dr Pavel Berloff / Mathematics and Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk / CEE |
| Spectral element methods and mesh adaptations for Formula 1 simulations | Dr Gerard Gorman / ESE and Prof Spencer Sherwin / Aeronautics |
| Turbulent wake effects in tidal turbine arrays: A numerical and experimental study | Prof Matt Piggott / ESE and Prof Colin Cotter / Mathematics |
| Shock/boundary layer interaction unsteadiness in laminar and transitional flows | Dr Paul Bruce / Aeronautics |
| Concerted fluid thread break-up under microfluidic confinement | Prof Joao Cabral / Chemical Engineering and Prof Richard Craster / Mathematics |
| Nonlinear stability of immiscible multi-fluid viscoelastic shear flows | Prof Demetrios Papageorgiou / Mathematics and Prof Omar Matar / Chemical Engineering |
| Nonlinear evolution and acoustic radiation of large-scale coherent structures in turbulent jets | Prof Xuesong Wu / Mathematics and Prof Christos Vassilicos / Aeronautics |
| New insights into turbulent annular interfacial flows with combined fluorescence and particle-velocimetry laser-diagnostic techniques | Prof Christos Markides / Chemical Engineering and Dr Oliver Buxton / Aeronautics |
| Lagrangian measurement and calculation of the dispersion of droplets and of their vapour trails in turbulent flows | Prof Alex Taylor / Mechanical Engineering and Prof Christos Vassilicos / Aeronautics |
| Effect of buoyancy on turbulent entrainment in environmental flows | Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk / CEE and Prof Christos Vassilicos / Aeronautics |
| Bio-mimetic drag-reduction strategies for multi-modal mobility in nature and robotics | Prof Mirko Kovac / Aeronautics and Prof Omar Matar / Chemical Engineering |
| What role does blood flow play in the initiation of arterial disease? | Prof Peter Weinberg / Bioengineering, Prof Spencer Sherwin / Aeronautics and Prof Justin Mason / NHLI |
| Acoustic metamaterials and homogenisation methods | Prof Richard Craster / Mathematics and DSTL |
| Thermo-acoustic oscillations in industrial gas turbine combustion chambers | Prof Bill Jones / Mechanical Engineering and Siemens |
| Large eddy simulations of liquid-fuelled combustion under gas turbine conditions | Dr Salvador Navarro-Martinez and Siemens |
| Low order modelling of thermoacoustic instability in an industrial gas turbine combustor | Prof Aimee Morgans / Aeronautics, Prof Bill Jones / Mechanical Engineering and Siemens |
| Modelling the effect of small excrescences on wing performance | Dr Shahid Mughal / Mathematics, Prof Spencer Sherwin / Aeronautics and Airbus |