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PhD Positions in Advanced Virtual Prototyping at the University of Manchester

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phd
FEM
fusion
energy
biomechanics
virtual reality
cloud computing
parallel computing
HPC
I am currently recruiting new PhD students to join my research group at The School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester. The core focus of the group is advanced computing for engineering simulation. My research interests centre on extreme scale parallel computing, cloud computing and virtual reality simulation platforms, applied to scientific and engineering problems involving complex processes.

PhD Positions in Advanced Virtual Prototyping at the University of Manchester

Submitted by Lee Margetts on
research
phd
FEM
fusion
energy
biomechanics
virtual reality
cloud computing
parallel computing
HPC
I am currently recruiting new PhD students to join my research group at The School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester. The core focus of the group is advanced computing for engineering simulation. My research interests centre on extreme scale parallel computing, cloud computing and virtual reality simulation platforms, applied to scientific and engineering problems involving complex processes.

Research Fellowship for Nationals of Mexico, India, China and Turkey

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postdoctoral position
Postdoc fellow position
postdoc
Newton fellowship
China
India
early stage researchers

The Newton International Fellowship scheme is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK. 

Research Software Engineer Fellowship

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Research Software Engineer
Exascale
Fellowship
Postdoc fellow position

The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is offering Research Software Engineer (RSE) Fellowships for a period of up to five years. The RSE Fellowship describes exceptional individuals with combined expertise in programming and a solid knowledge of the research environment. The eligibility criteria and details of how to apply can be found on the EPSRC website.

PhD Studentship: "Advanced Virtual Prototyping for Sustainable Energy Generation"

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PhD Studentship

I have an EPSRC CASE PhD Studentship on offer that is co-funded by Alstom PLC.

There are three aims: (i) to couple ParaFEM with OpenFOAM for massively parallel fluid-structure interaction; (ii) to release that code into the community and (iii) to use the new capability to study the performance of "whole" wind farms, insilico. 

I'd appreciate it if you could forward this opportunity to colleagues who may know of good potential candidates. Apologies that the eligibility requirements for this studentship restrict it to UK/EU candidates only. 

Cellular Automata for Multi-scale Fracture

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3D fracture
brittle fracture
Cellular Automata
computational mechanics
finite elements
application of fracture mechanics

Could cellular automata be used to model mechanisms (for quasi-brittle fracture) that occur at the meso-scale and then feed these mechanisms to a macro-scale finite element model? Is it possible to replace constitutive models with mechanistic models, simulating mechanisms that lead to fracture instead of formulating equations that predict failure? These are typical questions that have motivated my recent collaboration with Dr Anton Shterenlikht at the University of Bristol.

Stochastic Review Paper in Movie Form!

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Stochastic
stochastic FE analysis
Stochastic Computational Mechanics
Monte carlo
Monte Carlo Method
Monte-Carlo simulations

A while ago, I shared news about the recent publication of our review paper titled: "Practical Application of the Stochastic Finite Element Method".  The first author David Arregui-Mena, a PhD student at the University of Manchester, created a YouTube movie which summarises the content of the paper.

For those interested, its worth a watch!

Link to movie

Practical Application of the Stochastic Finite Element Method

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Stochastic
FEA
random materials
random geometry
random loading
random signal

If you're interested in stochastic finite element analysis, you might like to know that we've just published a paper that reviews the "practical" application of the method. The paper first outlines the main methods of incorporating uncertainty into engineering computations. It then presents "practical" examples across a range of disciplines of where these methods have been used.

We hope that this paper is a good starting point for those looking to adopt stochastics in their work.

Extinct Kangaroos Couldn't Hop

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dinosaurs
biomechanics
genetic algorithms
HPC
rigid body kinematics

Another couple of interesting articles to share. Using some "mechanics" principles, researchers have reasoned that 100,000 years ago, kangaroos were too heavy to hop.

A while ago, a different group of researchers published the results of computer modelling (using genetic algorithms) that showed dinosaurs might have hopped and skipped as forms of locomotion! (But only if particularly happy?)

These articles might be good to share with undergraduate engineers for discussion in tutorials. There are issues to discuss with assumptions in both cases. 

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