PDRA in Modelling Wetting Phenomena and Interfacial Flows

The Department

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The Role

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in modelling wetting phenomena and interfacial flows, to work with Prof Halim Kusumaatmaja in the Department of Physics at Durham University and Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. The candidate is also expected to interact closely with an experimental Postdoctoral Research Associate and the academic team: Prof Glen McHale and Dr Gary Wells based in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh

The position is to commence in February 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. The post is fixed term for 36 months.

The position is part of a Leverhulme Trust grant on "Fluid Mechanics of Wettability-Patterned Liquid Surfaces" recently awarded to Dr Ledesma-Aguilar, Prof Kusumaatmaja, Dr Wells and Prof McHale. The overarching aim of the project is to study how droplets interact with domains of distinct droplet-on-liquid wettability. It is anticipated the candidate for this post will combine analytical modelling and a state-of-the-art numerical approach based on the lattice Boltzmann method.