Computational Fluid Dynamics – (M.Sc.)

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There has been considerable growth in the development and application of CFD to all aspects of fluid dynamics leading to CFD becoming a standard modelling tool widely utilised within industry. As a consequence there is a considerable demand for specialists in the subject, to apply and develop CFD methods throughout engineering companies and research organisations.

Department of Fluid Mechanics and Computational Science led by Professor Dimitris Drikakis, FRaES, FIoN, author of the “High Resolution Methods for Incompressible and Low Speed Flows” CFD textbook (Springer, 2004), has a broad range of expertise including, among other fields, Numerical methods development for computational science; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational & experimental aerodynamics; Transition, turbulence, instabilities and turbulent mixing modelling; Multi-species and multi-phase flows modelling; Computational heat transfer analysis; Shock-material interaction modelling; Environmental flows modelling; Computational fluid dynamics for automotive flows; Nanotechnology and nanoscience, eg fluid-material interfaces, micro/nanofluidics, particles transport.The Department has links with a number of several research establishments and industries such as: DSTL, AWE, UKAEA, MBDA, Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, Formula 1 companies, Selex, Servomex, Malvern Instruments, Blue Bear Systems Research, Eaton Aerospace Ltd, Eurocopter (Germany), DLR (Germany), QinetiQ, BAE Systems, British Hydromechanics Research (BHR), Los Alamos National Lab (USA), National Physical Laboratory, Daresbury Laboratory, Turbomeca (France), Gamesa (Spain), Lambda GmbH (Austria), Lionix (The Netherlands), St Andrews Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns (Essex), Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Trust (London), among others. The CFD research group comprises 41 researchers at the moment dealing with all aspects of fluid flow modelling, which creates an exciting environment to pursue CFD studies in.

The Master of Science in Computational Fluid Dynamics course provides a solid background for graduates to be able to apply, in an educated manner, CFD as a design tool for engineering applications, providing excellent career opportunities across a broad range of industries. For graduates interested in an academic career the course provides an excellent basis from which to further specialise in the development and application of both numerical algorithms and physical models.