Fully Funded PhD: Tip-Vortex & Turbine Wake Control

King's College London Department of Engineering; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully funded PhD

Tuition fees covered

Doctoral stipend

Training & travel

Job summary

King’s College London Department of Engineering invites applications for a fully funded PhD studentship under the ERC MISSMAPS Starting Grant. The project investigates wake control and permeable blade-tip concepts for offshore wind and tidal energy.

The successful candidate will combine advanced CFD (OpenFOAM, LES/RANS-LES) with experimental validation, and will collaborate with international partners across academia and industry.

Qualifications

• Applicants should hold a first-class or strong upper-second class degree in Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or closely related discipline.
• Strong interest in fluid dynamics, vortex dynamics, renewable energy, and computational/experimental research.
• Experience in CFD; hybrid RANS-LES; experimental fluid mechanics; turbulence; aerodynamics or hydrodynamics; fluid-structure interaction; multiphysics modelling; optimisation; machine learning/AI; wind/tidal energy.

Responsibilities

• Perform CFD simulations (OpenFOAM) and validate with experiments.
• Contribute to model development and data analysis.
• Collaborate with international partners (Oxford, TU Delft) and attend conferences.

Skills

CFD

LES methods

Experimental fluid mechanics

Wake dynamics

Education

First-class or strong upper-second class degree in Engineering/related

Tools

OpenFOAM

Fluent

Nektar++

Job description

King’s College London Department of Engineering invites applications for a fully funded PhD studentship under the ERC MISSMAPS Starting Grant. The project investigates wake control and permeable blade-tip concepts for offshore wind and tidal energy.

The successful candidate will combine advanced CFD (OpenFOAM, LES/RANS-LES) with experimental validation, and will collaborate with international partners across academia and industry.