UKFN weekly round-up 29/11/18

If you would like to circulate a brief message to the UKFN mailing list ahead of the monthly newsletter, you can send it to info@fluids.ac.uk by Thursday noon and it will be circulated in the weekly round-up later that day. All messages that are still time-relevant will be repeated in the monthly newsletter.



A. UKFN MESSAGES

From: Nick Daish, 29/11/18
Subject: UKFN photo/video competition #5 - FINAL REMINDER

The UKFN photo/video competition, with the theme 'Instability', will be closing shortly. If you would like the chance to win £200, send in your photos and videos by 30th November 2018. Full details at https://fluids.ac.uk/competition.




B. MEMBER MESSAGES

JOBS:

From: Esteban Ferrer, E.T.S.I. Aeronáuticos - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 22/11/18
Subject: 5 PhD Studentships in innovative simulation methods at NUMECA (Belgium)/ETSIAE-UPM (Spain)

Topic: Improving predictive capabilities of current aerodynamic based High Order Methods for CFD
Details: https://tinyurl.com/phds-numeca-upm
Closing date: 15 December 2018



From: Miguel Teixeira, University of Reading, 25/11/18
Subject: PhD Studentship in Department of Meteorology/UK Met Office

Topic: 'Trapped lee waves as a source of low-level drag on the atmosphere'
Details: http://www.reading.ac.uk/met/phd-projects/ (application), https://tinyurl.com/phd-teixeira-reading (flyer)
Closing date: 25 January 2019



From: Andy Aspden, Newcastle University, 29/11/18
Subject: PhD Studentship in Mechanical Engineering

Topic: 'Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion for Improving Efficiency and Reducing Emissions in Spark Ignition Engines'
Details: https://tinyurl.com/phd-aspden-mecheng-ncl
Closing date: 28 January 2019



EVENTS:

From: Nick Daish, University of Cambridge, 22/11/18
Subject: Microfluidics 2019: current trends and future directions in the field of microfluidics

Date: 23-24 May 2019
Location: Las Vegas, USA
Details: https://www.meetingsint.com/conferences/microfluidics