Investigation of heating and evaporation of multi-component droplets

The deadline for 2012 Doctoral College Studentships has now passed.

The Brighton Doctoral College is pleased to welcome applications from self-funded or externally sponsored students for programmes of research in this or a closely related area, beginning from September 2012. Applications are welcome from students wishing to study full time or part time, and applications are welcome from students in employment who have the support of their employers.

• Based in the Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Supervisors: Prof. Sergei Sazhin; Dr Paul Harris; Professor Morgan Heikal.

Application deadline

The university cannot guarantee that students can start at their requested date unless deadlines are met.

• UK/EU students: The deadline for the university to receive applications for an entry date of October is the 1 August, for January entry it is the 1 November and for May it is the 1 March.
• International students: The deadline for the university to receive applications for an entry date of October is the 1 June, for January entry it is the 1 September and for May it is the 1 January.

Apply now.

This studentship, which will be at the interface between mathematics and engineering, will focus on the development of new models for realistic multi-component droplet heating and evaporation.

The research will include implementing new models into the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code FLUENT and testing the models against available experimental data. Specific attention will be focused on modelling the effect of additives and thermal radiation on multi-component droplet heating and evaporation. The feasibility of taking into account droplet deformation and break-up, and the kinetic effects on droplet heating and evaporation will also be investigated. The work will be performed at the modelling group of the Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories at the University of Brighton in close collaboration with the experimental group of the same laboratory and the University of Nancy (France). 

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