PhD project: NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF MULTIPHASE REACTIVE FLOWS

October 18, 2019 in Funding Opportunity

• Title of project: NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF MULTIPHASE REACTIVE FLOWS
• Funding agency (Optional): DoD
• Description: Combustion in compressible and
  multiphase media provides the energy necessary to make modern life
  possible. It provides the thrust needed for aircraft and rocket
  propulsion, transportation, generates electricity that powers our homes,
  and provides the explosive potential crucial to national security and
  the construction industry. However, much is unknown about how chemical
  reactions, multiphase flows, heat transfer, and compressible fluid
  mechanics are coupled together in off-design and extreme scenarios. Too
  often these effects conspire to produce unwanted effects such as
  dangerous explosions and remain a societal menace. Our ultimate goal is
  to answer fundamental questions such as: How do explosively dispersed
  dust clouds ignite and burn? How do droplets burn when injected into
  very high-speed and shock-laden flows? How do dust explosions propagate?
  Our group answers these, and other, questions by using numerical
  simulations with our in-house codes that run on massively parallel
  high-performance computing clusters.
• Restrictions/Constraints: Some of our funded projects have US Citizenship requirements.
• Knowledge and skills needed: Students with programming experience, mainly Fortran, and strong mathematical skills are preferred.
• How to apply: Please send a CV and transcripts to Prof. Houim
• Faculty contact/webpage: Prof. Ryan Houim, rhouim@ufl.edu