Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Featured PhD Programmes
University of Edinburgh Featured PhD Programmes
Tips on how to manage your PhD stipend FIND OUT MORE

fluid mechanics PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

We have 74 fluid mechanics PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Filter Results
 Back to results
 Clear search

Discipline

All disciplines

Location

All locations

Institution

All Institutions

PhD Type

All PhD Types

Funding

All Funding

Latest PhDs only
Filter results
Back
Clear filter
Show 74 results
Back
Clear filter
Show 74 results
Back
Clear filter

Show 74 results
Back
Clear filter
Show 74 results
Back
Clear filter
Show 74 results
Fluid Mechanics of Colloidal Suspensions (Nanofluids) in Drilling Operations
Aberdeen University School of Engineering
Nanotechnology is an emerging technology that has been employed for energy extraction processes in recent years. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Sharifi, Dr R Rafati
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

More Details
Microfluidics for Synchrotron to unlock structural changes in biomolecules
University of Leeds Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics. is now recruiting to this fantastic PhD opportunity in partnership with Diamond, the UK's national synchrotron science facility. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof N Kapur
 7 April 2021 PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

More Details
Electrohydrodynamics of Droplet Pairs
University of Strathclyde Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Mathematics and statistics are at the heart of all scientific and engineering disciplines. Strathclyde has a strong international reputation in the use of mathematical modelling and analysis to solve many problems relevant to industry, business and wider society. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Das
 14 March 2021 PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

More Details
Experimental Aerodynamics and Environmental Flows
University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
  Research Group: Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics
Supervisory Team.   Dr Christina Vanderwel. Project description. Currently recruiting a PhD student in the field of Experimental Aerodynamics and Environmental Flows to join our UKRI FLF project team “Simulating urban air pollution in the lab”. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Vanderwel
 31 March 2021 PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

This research project is one of a number of projects at this institution. It is in competition for funding with one or more of these projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be awarded the funding. The funding is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

More Details
Fluid flows above and within porous materials
Aberdeen University School of Engineering
Fluid mechanics problems often involve fluid flows over porous materials. Examples of practical applications include flow through atmospheric and aquatic vegetation, coastal structures, and movement of biological fluids through various tissues. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof D Pokrajac, Dr D Van der A
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

More Details
Fluid Turbulence and Extreme Events
Keele University Faculty of Natural Sciences
A major challenge in the field of fluid mechanics exists in understanding the complex nonlinear behaviour of turbulence. This problem has an enormous number of engineering and geophysical applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Lucas
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

More Details
Understanding the mechanics of fluids in fractured rocks during enhanced oil recovery processes
Aberdeen University School of Engineering
Fluid flow in fractured subsurface porous media is a complex process due to the presence of high-permeability fracture networks. During Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and geological sequestration of CO2 processes interactions of rocks and fluids need to be understood to optimise the performance of the processes. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Sharifi, Dr R Rafati
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

More Details
Characterisation of flow around a bivalve (Pecten Maximus) shell
Aberdeen University School of Engineering
A number of studies have highlighted the ability of freshwater mussels to behave as so-called ecosystem engineers; actively modifying their local environment through mechanisms such as filtering and passively by modifying bed roughness. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Stewart, Prof V Nikora
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

More Details
Development of a low cost hyperspectral imaging device for remote sensing of environmental flows
Aberdeen University School of Engineering
Hyperspectral imaging is widely used in industry and research but traditional commercial devices tend to suffer from high cost and low portability, as well as lacking information on the ultraviolet range of the spectrum or being unsuitable for underwater applications (Nevala and Baden, 2019). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Stewart, Dr S Cameron
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

More Details
The impacts of heterogeneity of reservoir rock property on the multiphase flow and oil recovery from pore scale to reservoir scale
Aberdeen University School of Engineering
Most of the subsurface materials, such as reservoir rocks, soils and other porous media are highly heterogeneous with a wide range of length scales. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Wu, Dr L Akanji
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

More Details
Optimal design of semi-rigid fish farming structures - Laboratory and field testing
University of Otago Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The New Zealand government has an ambition of reaching $1 billion of sales from aquaculture by 2025, meaning that the $500 million revenue earned in 2018 must be doubled over a relatively short space of time in a country that has limited inshore licenses for aquaculture. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof S Wakes
 11 March 2021 PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

More Details
Optimal design of semi-rigid fish farming structures - Fluids modelling
University of Otago Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The New Zealand government has an ambition of reaching $1 billion of sales from aquaculture by 2025, meaning that the $500 million revenue earned in 2018 must be doubled over a relatively short space of time in a country that has limited inshore licenses for aquaculture. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof S Wakes
 11 March 2021 PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

More Details
The effects of vegetation on wave hydrodynamics in coastal environments
Aberdeen University School of Engineering
Seabeds covered with vegetation such as seagrass protect against coastal erosion due to their ability to attenuate wave energy and demobilise suspended sediments. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof T O'Donoghue, Dr D Van der A
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

More Details
Combine Digital Rock Technology and AI to Identify Remaining Hydrocarbon potential
Aberdeen University School of Engineering
Recent advances in multiscale digital rock technology have made it possible to quantify the spatial distribution of wettability and model the heterogeneous 3D microstructures of reservoir rocks at large scale. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Wu, Dr A Starkey
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

More Details
Secondary currents in rough-bed open-channel flows and their interrelations with the primary mean flow and turbulence
Aberdeen University School of Engineering
Although the great significance of secondary flows for river processes has long been recognised, their origin, mechanics, effects, and interrelations with the primary mean flow and turbulence are still under debate and continue attracting close attention of hydrologists, geomorphologists, engineers, and, recently, stream ecologists. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof V Nikora, Dr S Cameron
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

PhD Research Project

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

View All
Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

More Details

PhD Project & Programmes
Search for PhDs
PhDs by Subject
PhDs by Institution
PhDs by Email
PhDs in the United Kingdom
PhDs in Biological Sciences
PhDs in Engineering
Info for students
Postgraduate Open Days
PhD Study Guides
PhD Study Abroad
Funding Your PhD
Postgraduate Advice Forum
Postgraduate Email Updates
Info for advertisers
Advertise your PhD Project & Programmes
Provider Login
Display Advertising
Targeted Emails

FindAPhD. Copyright 2005-2021
All rights reserved.

Filtering Results