Combining high power lasers and relativistic electron beams to explore radiation, matter, and antimatter in strong fields
Combining high power lasers and relativistic electron beams to explore radiation, matter, and antimatter in strong fields
About the Project New high power laser facilities around the world are creating pulses of light with unprecedented electric and magnetic field strengths. There is an opportunity to drive relativistic … Read More Read More
Categories:
Accessing attosecond timescales – controlling the microbunching instability in Free Electron Lasers
Accessing attosecond timescales – controlling the microbunching instability in Free Electron Lasers
About the Project In collaboration with our partners in the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology, the accelerator physics group in the department of physics at the University of … Read More Read More
Categories:
Simulation of particle physics experiments on graphical processing units
Simulation of particle physics experiments on graphical processing units
About the Project In this project you will combine state of the art software development approaches for GPU programming with the study of interactions of high-energy particles with detectors at … Read More Read More
Categories:
Flow physics of supersonic boundary layers
Flow physics of supersonic boundary layers
About the Project PhD Supervisor: Neil Sandham Project description: This project is focused on scale-resolving simulations (large-eddy and direct numerical simulation) combined with analysis to understand complex phenomena in high-speed … Read More Read More
Categories:
Picophotonics: The Science of Light-Matter Interactions at Sub-atomic Scale
Picophotonics: The Science of Light-Matter Interactions at Sub-atomic Scale
About the Project Supervisory Team : Prof Kevin Macdonald, Prof Nikolay Zheludev The Project This project will develop new concepts of optical imaging, metrology and device functionality at the atomic … Read More Read More
Categories:
Wavelength-flexible, single-frequency fibre lasers
Wavelength-flexible, single-frequency fibre lasers
About the Project This project will initially focus on developing, demonstrating, and characterising fibre laser sources and will subsequently aim to utilise the developed technology in a range of application … Read More Read More
Categories:
Spatial Effects in High-Power Fibre Lasers and Amplifiers
Spatial Effects in High-Power Fibre Lasers and Amplifiers
About the Project Supervisory Team: Dr Peter Horak, Prof Michalis Zervas Project Description This project will exploit computer simulations to investigate the dynamics of the generation of light in such … Read More Read More
Categories:
Optimising Surface Topography for Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flows
Optimising Surface Topography for Drag Reduction in Turbulent Flows
About the Project This PhD project focuses on advancing passive control strategies to reduce drag in turbulent flows by developing optimised surface topographies. Recent experimental breakthroughs have shown that drag … Read More Read More
Categories:
Ab initio modelling and control of turbulent flows
Ab initio modelling and control of turbulent flows
About the Project In turbulence, transport processes and average flow quantities of practical relevance are dominated by coherent structures. In an effort to better understand their role, a sophisticated approach … Read More Read More
Categories:
Revealing the Hidden Light: Understanding the cosmic dust and cold gas in nearby galaxies.
Revealing the Hidden Light: Understanding the cosmic dust and cold gas in nearby galaxies.
About the Project Over half the light ever emitted by stars in the Universe having been absorbed by cosmic dust, and the situation is worse (>90%) when looking at regions … Read More Read More
Categories: