The project will be based in the CFD Laboratory , and will be supervised jointly by Professor WN Dawes, the Director of the laboratory, and by Dr N Peake. Dr Peake holds a joint lectureship between the Engineering Department and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics , and has a number of years experience of modelling aeroengine acoustics. The CFD laboratory is well established and well-founded. Our strategy is to identify and perform fundamental research to enable a range of very practical problems to be attacked. We have a very advanced range of computing power available, including several multi-processor work stations and a Boeuwolf PC cluster together with substantial access to the University s Hitachi Massively Parallel Supercomputer.
Funding is robust and from a variety of sources.
More about the Engineering Department The Engineering Department teaches and conducts research in all the main branches of engineering except for Chemical Engineering which is a separate department. All undergraduate students take the same courses in their first two years, before specialising in their third and fourth years. The four-year course leads to the degrees BA, MEng for all branches of engineering. For administrative purposes the Department has a divisional structure. Further details The successful candidate will have PhD or equivalent background.