Prof C MacMinn
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Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
About the Project
This studentship is part of the major ERC Starting Grant project DEFTPORE: “Deformation Control on Flow and Transport in Soft Porous Media”, being undertaken by the University of Oxford under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.
Fluid flows through soft porous media are ubiquitous in biology, medicine, and the earth sciences, and they play a key role in a variety of industrial and manufacturing processes. The defining feature of soft porous media is that they are highly deformable, enabling a strong two-way coupling between flow and pore structure. This coupling has profound implications for the transport and mixing of solutes and the interaction of multiple fluid phases, all of which are strongly coupled to pore structure. However, flow and transport in these systems are at the frontier of our ability to measure and model.
This ambitious project will combine high-resolution experiments with theoretical modelling across a series of classical flow problems to revolutionize our fundamental physical understanding of, and predictive modelling capabilities for, flow and transport in soft systems.
The studentship will involve experiments and modelling and will focus on two-phase flows, including capillary phenomena, residual trapping, and immiscible viscous fingering.
The DPhil student will become a member of the Poromechanics Lab in the Department of Engineering Science, supervised by Prof. Chris MacMinn. Further information on the group can be found at http://cwmacminn.com.
Candidate Requirements
Prospective candidates will be judged according to how well they meet the following criteria:
• A first-class or high-upper-second-class honours degree in Engineering, Physics, Geoscience, or Applied Mathematics;
• Experience with fluids-oriented research demonstrated by publication in international conferences or journals, or a first-class final year project report;
• Excellent English written and spoken communication skills;
The following skills are desirable but not essential:
• Experience with experimental fluid mechanics
• Experience with solid mechanics or more general continuum mechanics
• Experience with two-phase systems, including capillarity and wetting
Funding Notes
Each studentship covers a stipend (tax-free maintenance grant) of £22,000 p.a. for the first year, and at least this amount for a further 3 years. The studentship does not cover the payment of the annual course fees of £7,730.
References
Please quote 19ENGCIV_CMM2 in all correspondence, and in your application.
Application Procedure
Interested candidates are strongly advised to contact Prof. Chris MacMinn (christopher.macminn@eng.ox.ac.uk) with a copy of their CV before making a formal application. Please note that applications will not be accepted via email. All applications must be submitted in accordance with the instructions below.
Candidates must submit a graduate application form and are expected to meet the graduate admissions criteria. Details are available on the Engineering course page of the University website. Further details about making an application are available at www.eng.ox.ac.uk/study-here/postgraduate/how-to-apply. Candidates are strongly advised to review the application requirements well in advance of the deadline. Applications should state a start date of October 2019.
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