The PhD studentship is in collaboration with AWE Plc. Understanding the processes involved in turbulent mixing and fluid flow is fundamental to materials in extreme conditions.
Materials that are porous at the nanoscale are used in a wide variety of applications, like gas separation, carbon capture, catalysis and drug delivery.
The aim of the project is to use novel laser diagnostic techniques to image the flow field in turbulent flames to improve the understanding of flame dynamics with particular application to heat-treating gas furnaces.
Ferrofluids (magnetic or superparamagnetic fluids) are a special case of colloidal fluids, where single-domain, nanosize ferromagnetic partices are dispersed in a simple liquid.
Polymers and turbulence are two of the most difficult problems in statistical physics. In the past, the study of polymeric liquids was divided in two categories.
Engineers have traditionally used continuum equations to model processes, such as the Navier-Stokes equation for fluid flow. These methods require constitutive relations that encode the properties of the fluid; these are typically determined empirically and have limited predictive capabilities.
Electron transfer between molecules in solution and a surface (e.g., a metallic electrode or semiconducting substrate) occurs in a wide variety of important areas, including catalysis, corrosion, electrodeposition, photochemistry, etc.
Despite being the most widely studied PAT technologies, to date, most applications of NIR and Raman spectroscopy are carried out using standard measurement geometry without specifying and differentiating spatial arrangement between the incident and collecting optics.
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship fully funded by the University of Strathclyde and Leonardo MW. Ground-based airborne imaging radar systems are frequently required to provide enhanced situational awareness information beyond target detection and tracking.
