Mountain glacier surface mass balance responds to changes in climate. The glacier equilibrium line altitude (ELA), the elevation at which net accumulation equals net ablation, has been empirically linked to both precipitation and temperature.
Naturally occurring gas (mostly methane) hydrates along the continental margins (coastal offshore) and permafrost sediments are the clean source of energy outnumbering the rest forms of conventional energy sources.
Immiscible displacement flows have been widely studied in contaminant dispersion in the subsurface (e.g., solute transport to aquifers, radionuclide’s diffusion in nuclear storage, etc) and oil & gas production (e.g., enhanced oil recovery, heavy oil production, etc) applications.
This is a prestigious Scholarship awarded for four years with generous travel and research funds. It is a collaboration between the Centre for Living and Moffat Centre in GLASGOW.
Research Group:
Institute of Petroleum Engineering
Prof J Underhill, Dr R Jamieson
Application Deadline:
1 February 2019
Passive continental margins record the rifting, breakup and thermal subsidence of divergent margins and therefore their study is a key components in developing our understanding of large scale tectonic processes.
Research Group:
Institute of Petroleum Engineering
Dr R van Dijke
Application Deadline:
1 February 2019
Recent 3D micro-CT visualisations of two-phase flow in porous media have revealed and confirmed pore-scale displacement mechanisms, such as trapped ganglion movement, as well as sudden interface advance (Haines jumps) and retraction (Berg et al., 2013; Reynolds et al., 2017.).
