PhD in relevant science or engineering related discipline

The offshore environment is characterised by complex and highly dynamic turbulent flows that define the performance and design of renewable energy systems and their infrastructure. This PhD project aims to enhance the understanding of offshore turbulence in spatially varying flows. The focus will be on open channel flow dynamics and controlled experimental studies will be designed and conducted to generate and characterise turbulence due to varying bathymetry, bed roughness, and due to boundary forcing due to free surface changes or fixed lateral channel boundary./nThe research objectives include designing an experimental investigation to replicate offshore flow conditions at a reduced scale; conducting novel experiments to examine turbulence generation and evolution under controlled variations in bathymetry and bed roughness, and will also include evaluating and validating existing numerical models, ensuring their reliability in predicting real-world conditions./nThis project is supported by brand-new laboratory facilities at the University of Manchester's Hydrodynamics Lab (www.scieng.manchester.ac.uk/tomorrowlabs/manchester-hydrodynamic-lab). Location: Manchester.