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Start date: October – January Duration: 4 years Funding: industrial sponsor Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl, UK) Research area: Experimental fluid mechanics, multiphase flows, soft matter physics Supervision: Prof. Julien Landel (LMFA, UCBL), Prof. Jean-Philippe Matas (LMFA, UCBL), Prof. Stuart Dalziel (DAMTP, University of Cambridge) Project description
This PhD project aims to uncover the fundamental mechanisms governing the transfer and redistribution of liquid droplets by rolling wheels on contaminated surfaces.
The project will investigate how droplets deform, spread, break up, and are redistributed through a combination of:
capillary effects, inertial forces, centrifugal effects, interfacial instabilities. The research will combine high-spee...