Dr P Hancock
Applications accepted all year round
About the Project
The mechanisms controlling air quality in cities with tall and very tall buildings are poorly understood in atmospherically neutral wind-flow conditions, and much less well understood when the atmosphere is in a state of atmospheric inversion or convective conditions, which arise much more commonly. This is of particular concern for cities in Asia with very tall buildings and poor air quality such as Shanghai. While there is growing use of air quality sensors within urban environments, the complexity of cities means that it is difficult to diagnose mass transfer processes, influences of atmospheric stability on pollutant dispersion and the location and nature of sources of pollution. Therefore, wind tunnel investigations are required to provide high quality data suitable for developing models and parameterisations of pollutant dispersion. The project will be primarily experimental, using the EnFlo NERC National Facility stratified-flow wind tunnel at the Univ. of Surrey, and part of the work will include computational work supervised by Dr Hilary Weller.
The project will be co-supervised by Matteo Carpentieri (Surrey), Hilary Weller (Reading) and Sue Grimmond (Reading).
The full project description is available here http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/nercdtp/home/available/desc/SC201523_Hancock.pdf
Funding Notes
Funding would be via the NERC SCENARIO Doctoral Training Partnership http://www.reading.ac.uk/nercdtp. Funding for this project is ONLY available for United Kingdom residents and is available for October 2015 entry.
Applications are encouraged by 2 February 2015, but later applications will be considered.
To apply for this PhD project please visit http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/nercdtp/home/apply.html
This project would be suitable for students with a first degree in environmental or physical science or a relevant engineering discipline, at first or perhaps upper-second level, with a clear enthusiasm and ability for experimental work.
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