PhD in Engineering

This PhD is aligned with an exciting new multi-centre research programme on parallel mesh generation for advancing cutting-edge high-fidelity industrial simulation. Engineering applications include Formula 1, turbomachinery and nuclear fusion. These problems exhibit complex geometries and challenging time-varying physics which require adaptation of the mesh during simulation to resolve and track features in the flow. The focus of your PhD would be on developing novel algorithms to efficiently redistribute and rebalance the parallel simulation workload and update the solver data structures when the mesh changes. These approaches would be applied on modern large-scale heterogeneous parallel computing environments where both CPUs and GPUs are utilised in the computation. You will be part of the Nektar++ group and will be contributing towards the development of this advanced C++ software framework. The PhD will provide you with training and experience in a range of industrially relevant computational engineering techniques. You will develop expertise in high-order finite element methods, mesh adaptation techniques, advanced parallel programming and debugging, as well as software engineering best practices. You will have access to cutting-edge computational resources, including the latest Imperial College HPC clusters, and UK National Supercomputer facilities. You will also be able to grow your professional network through collaborating with researchers on the project based at Swansea University, Kings College London, Queens University Belfast and the University of Edinburgh.