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Simpleware at Hartree Summer Schools 2016: Week 2 - Engineering Simulation

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Dates: June 27 - July 1, 2016

Venue: The Hartree Centre, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4AD, UK    [Directions]

School Leaders: Lee Margetts (University of Manchester), Anton Shterenlikht (University of Bristol), and Llion Evans (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy)

Registration Fee: £150

Simpleware are contributing to this event.

PhD Vacancy: UK Centre for Doctoral Training in Fusion Energy

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

I am currently looking to fill an open PhD position in a project titled:

Advanced Virtual Design of 3D Printed Fusion Reactor Components

This is to continue recent work that uses X-ray tomography, high performance computing and finite element analysis to design the plasma facing wall of the ITER reactor. Recent related publications can be found below:

PhD in Biomaterials for Aerospace Composites

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Manchester to help develop the next generation of simulation tools. These will be used to evaluate the structural integrity of novel aerospace composites under a wide range of operational conditions. The student will join a €3-4M euro research project that has recently been funded to investigate the use of biomaterials in aerospace composites. The project involves a range of academic and industrial partners in Europe and China, providing many opportunities for overseas research visits.

PhD Positions in Advanced Virtual Prototyping at the University of Manchester

Submitted by Lee Margetts on
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
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.

Extinct Kangaroos Couldn't Hop

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

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.