Sample project titles

MRes
MRes Project Titles
ProjectSupervisor / Department
 Single and double particle tracking in Direct Numerical Simulation of a turbulent boundary layer  Dr Sylvain Laizet / Aeronautics
 New insights into turbulent annular interfacial flows with fluorescence and particle-velocimetry laser-diagnostic techniques  Prof Christos Markides / Chemical Engineering
 Structural evolution in quasi-static flow of two-dimensional dense granular systems  Dr Rafi Blumenfeld / Earth Science & Engineering (ESE)
 Electrostatically-induced complex interfacial dynamics  Prof Omar Matar / Chemical Engineering
 The origin of near-wall streamwise vortices in wall-bounded turbulence: application of generalised optimal perturbation (GOP) theory  Prof Sergei Chernyshenko / Aeronautics
 Scattering from underwater targets: the effect of metamaterials  Prof Richard Craster / Mathematics and DSTL
 Capillary forces in multi-phase SPH  Prof Stephen Neethling / ESE
 Numerical simulation of water sloshing in a rotating tank under low gravity condition  Prof Joaquim Peiro / Aeronautics and European Space Agency
 Mass transfer phenomena in the lymphatic system  Prof Jimmy Moore / Bioengineering
 Spectral element methods and dynamic anisotropic mesh adaptations for Formula 1 simulations  Prof Spencer Sherwin / Aeronautics and Dr Gerard Gorman / ESE
 Hot plumes in Earth's mantle: complexity due to interaction with the mantle transition zone?  Prof Saskia Goes / Earth Science & Engineering
 Modelling tissue regeneration as an active fluid  Dr Chiu Fan Lee / Bioengineering
 Design of a flow chamber for testing novel theories relating blood flow to arterial disease  Prof Peter Weinberg / Bioengineering
 Theoretical and numerical analysis of pulsating flows around bluff bodies  Dr George Papadakis / Aeronautics
 Mechanical pumping of growth factors into engineered cartilage  Prof Molly Stevens / Materials
 Penguin-inspired low drag skins for Aquatic Micro Aerial Vehicles  Prof Mirko Kovac / Aeronautics
 Stochastic swimming of gyrotactic microorganisms in unsteady vortical shear flows  Dr Yongyun Hwang / Aeronautics and Dr Eric Keaveny / Mathematics
 Reduced order modelling of porous media and pipeline flows with application to oil and gas production  Prof Christopher Pain / ESE
 Modelling the thermoacoustic stability of a premixed flame in a tube combustor  Prof Xuesong Wu / Mathematics and Prof Aimee Morgans / Aeronautics
 Reducing the aerodynamic drag of a simplified road vehicle model  Prof Jonathan Morrison / Aeronautics
 The hydrodynamics of immiscible multi-fluid viscoelastic shear flows  Prof Demetrios Papageorgiou / Mathematics
 Undulatory locomotion in complex heterogeneous media  Dr Eric Keaveny / Mathematics
 Direct simulation and modelling of idealised volcanic releases  Dr Maarten van Reeuwijk / Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Met Office
 Topology optimization of gas turbines internal coolant flows  Dr Francesco Montomoli / Aeronautics
 Active fluid dynamics for drug delivery into the inner ear  Prof Tobias Reichenbach / Bioengineering
 A new approach to visualisation and quantification of mixing in large vessels using ultrasound and controlled microbubble destruction  Prof Mengxing Tang / Bioengineering and Prof Peter Vincent / Aeronautics
 Compressor surge prediction in heavy-duty diesel engines for off-road machine applications  Prof Ricardo Martinez-Botas / Mechanical Engineering
 Predicting combustion instability in an industrial gas turbine combustor  Prof Aimee Morgans / Aeronautics and Prof Bill Jones / Mechanical Engineering
 Convection in a curved vertical slot in a horizontal temperature gradient  Prof Jonathan Mestel / Mathematics
 Flow between concentric, differentially rotating spheres  Prof Dan Moore / Mathematics
 The effect of shear and normal stress on the flow of engineering fluids  Dr Janet Wong / Mechanical Engineering
 Controlling fluid flow by sound  Dr James Choi / Bioengineering and Prof Matt Jackson / Earth Science & Engineering
 Near wall models for large eddy simulation  Prof Bill Jones / Mechanical Engineering
 Development of parallel meshing for aeronautical applications  Prof Joaquim Peiro / Aeronautics and Aircraft Research Association
Projects offered to students in 2014-15

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