UKFN weekly round-up 6/12/18

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, 6/12/18
Subject: UKFN photo/video competition #5 - time to vote

You can now vote for your favourite photo and video in the latest UKFN photo/video competition, with the theme 'Instability'. Please go to https://fluids.ac.uk/competition to see the contenders and to vote - just one photo and one video each.

The poll closes on Wednesday 12th December.




B. MEMBER MESSAGES

JOBS:

From: Karthik Depuru-Mohan, Cranfield University, 29/11/18
Subject: PhD studentship at the Shrivenham Campus (within the UK Defence Academy) of Cranfield University

Topic: 'Greener Aircraft: Enhanced combustion of second-generation biofuels'
Details: https://tinyurl.com/phd-cranfield-green-aircraft (application), https://tinyurl.com/cranfield-centa-project (project)
Closing date: 21 January 2019



From: Chris MacMinn, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, 29/11/18
Subject: 2 PhD Studentships in flow through soft porous media in Poromechanics Lab, Oxford

Project: 'DEFTPORE: Deformation Control on Flow and Transport in Soft Porous Media'
Details: https://tinyurl.com/2phds-oxford-deftpore
Closing date: 25 January 2019 (noon)



From: Pierre Ricco, University of Sheffield, 4/12/18
Subject: 4-year PhD studentship on fluid dynamics/lubrication in Department of Mechanical Engineering

Topic: 'In-situ measurement of oil viscosity in an operating journal bearing using shear-horizontal waves'
Details: https://tinyurl.com/phd-sheffield-flyer (flyer), https://tinyurl.com/phd-sheffield-lube-flows (application)
Closing date: 'as soon as, and until, position is filled'



From: Bin Cheng, University of Surrey, 5/12/18
Subject: PDRF in multi-scale fluid dynamics in Department of Mathematics

Topic: PDE analysis applying functional and harmonic analytical theories to explore resonances in multiscale fluid dynamics
Details: https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=049418-R (application), https://tinyurl.com/pdrf-surrey-multiscale (flyer)
Closing date: 8 January 2019



EVENTS:

From: Vassilios Dallas, University of Oxford, 29/11/18
Subject: UK Graduate Modelling Camp 2019

Date: 2-5 April 2019
Location: Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Details: http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/r/infommgradcamp
Register and submit letter of recommendation by 31 January 2019