New Doctoral Training Centre in Fluid Dynamics across Scales announced

EPSRC has announced the award of Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Fluid Dynamics to Imperial College London.

EPSRC has announced the award of Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)  in Fluid Dynamics to Imperial College London.

The Centre, to start in 2014,  is led by the Aeronautics Department (Prof. Christos Vassilicos being the overall director), and involves six other Departments at Imperial College: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Earth Sciences and Engineering, Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering.

The CDT is a four-year training and research programme that combines a taught "Master of Research" year (of which 6 months are devoted to a research project) with a three-year PhD level research programme. This is specifically designed to cultivate researchers with a broad range of expertise in Fluid Dynamics and Fluids Engineering, including transferable skills that are highly desirable elements in the profile of scientists and engineers who aspire to be leaders in industry, commerce and academia.

The creation of a vibrant, interactive student-cohort culture is one important aspect of the Centre’s programme. There is a strong industrial participation in the Centre, with Airbus and EADS making a major contribution in Aeronautics.

Fluid Dynamics plays a vital role in a wide range of modern devices, industrial processes and natural phenomena - including Aeronautics,  vehicle aerodynamics (e.g. F1), atmospheric and aquatic systems, food and chemical manufacturing, the production of oil and gas and the flows that govern our cardiovascular systems and the planet’s oceans. Hence, researchers graduating from the Centre will be highly marketable.

Further information can be obtained from Prof. J.C. Vassilicos (j.c.vassilicos@imperial.ac.uk) and Prof. M.A. Leschziner (mike.leschziner@imperial.ac.uk).

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Applications for the 2014 fluids CDT PhD intake are now open, please visit www.icfluids.org or email fluids@imperial.ac.uk for further information.