Funded PhD Studentship: Reduced order modelling for shape optimisation

Swansea University is a UK top 30 institution for research excellence (Research Excellence Framework 2014), and has been named Welsh University of the Year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.

Start date: January 2018

The project aims at incorporating a reduce order technique within and established CFD software to enable the rapid assessment of the effect of geometry to the flow structure.

The student will work in the group of Dr Ruben Sevilla, Professor Oubay Hassan and Professor Ken Morgan.

Eligibility

Candidates should hold an undergraduate degree in Engineering, Math or related subjects.

Programming experience is preferred.

Applications are welcome from International Students on the understanding that the difference between the fees awarded (£4,500) and the international fee rate would be met by the successful candidate.

About Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering:

The history of the Zienkiewicz Centre may be traced back to the early 1960s, when the late Professor Olek C. Zienkiewicz became Head of the Civil Engineering Department in Swansea.

Civil Engineering at Swansea University is well known for its innovation in the area of computational mechanics, in general, and finite element methods, in particular.

Professor Zienkiewicz’s enthusiasm and hard work led to a new generation of computational mechanics researchers in Swansea and elsewhere. Professors Lewis FREng, Professor Morgan FREng and Professor Owen FRS, FREng were among the senior members of this Department.

The academic structure in Swansea changed about ten years back. The computational mechanics researchers from different engineering disciplines have now been assembled together to form a single group. This research grouping was initially referred to as the Civil and Computational Engineering Centre, headed previously by Professor Bonet, Professor Morgan and Professor Hassan in turn.

In honour of Professor Zienkiewicz, this Research Centre is now known as the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering.

The Zienkiewicz centre currently has more than forty full‒time, part–time and emeritus academic staff members, nearly one hundred graduate students and a large number of postdocs and researchers.

The Centre is currently home to six research groups, focused on important current topics of computational research. The groups contain internationally renowned researchers with strong links with IACM, ECCOMAS and related associations.

Bay Campus:

The College of Engineering has moved, along with the School of Management, to the brand new Bay Campus, after 95 years delivering degrees on the Singleton Park Campus.

The move establishes Swansea as a dual campus university with all other subjects and the main organisational hub remaining on Singleton Campus.

The Bay Campus is situated in an outstanding location on the eastern approach into Swansea, with direct access onto the beach and its own seafront promenade.

The Bay Campus includes an extensive Engineering Quarter, designed to capitalise on our research expertise and our collaboration with major companies, including Rolls-Royce and Tata Steel.