PhD student projects
PhD students are a very welcome addition to our research community and we are happy to engage them in excellent research alongside our academic staff members. Below you will find a list of some of the currently available research activities for PhD students.
Please contact the supervisors listed below to discuss each project in more detail and for help with developing a suitable research statement for the project.
Description
Supervisor
Funding
Additive manufacturing and sustainability
The Additive Manufacturing and 4D Printing Research group conducts research on novel use of materials, design guidelines and the societal impact of using 3D Printing.
This is a self-funded topic and t...
Self Funded
Automatic computational fluid-dynamics
Computational fluid-dynamics (CFD) is undergoing a revolution from steady to high-fidelity unsteady methods. A key time limitation to running CFD is in setting up a case to be run and processing data...
Self Funded
CFD modelling of plasma flow control
Active flow control can be utilised to modify fluid flow in advantageous ways without performance penalties of passive flow control. For example, to delay boundary layer separation, or alter noise ge...
Self Funded
Can AI based robot car win the race
A modern Formula 1 race is a breathtaking display of engineering precision. Yet the popularity of the sport arguably has less to do with the performance of the cars than with the skill and daring disp...
Self Funded