Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Oxford, Oxford, England invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Numerical study of plumes and booster stage separation in HCMs
Summary of PhD Program:
This project will conduct research into base flow and plume interaction during the stage separation phase in the flight of a hypersonic vehicle launcher. At the beginning of the separation manoeuvre, a plume induced separation appears on the leading vehicle, while the trailing vehicle is surrounded by the flow generated by the plume, and a generally asymmetric shock surface. The trajectories of both the leading and trailing vehicle are affected by the flow fields.
Application Deadline: 19 July 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Power Electronics Thermal Management
Summary of PhD Program:
With the commitment to transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources there is an increasing requirement for power electronics in many applications; for example wind turbines to next generation of aircraft and spacecraft. For such applications cost and weight are major considerations, and hence there is a continuous drive to make devices smaller and lights while simultaneously dissipating more heat.
Immersion cooling and phase change (boiling/evaporation) result in some of the largest heat transfer coefficients of any cooling mechanism. This project will theoretically and experimentally investigate boiling heat transfer, using cryogenic and fluorocarbon fluids, with various surface geometries and treatments to evaluate optimum design. Key objectives will be to reduce weight and volume while simultaneously increasing heat dissipation. The project will initially start with immersion cooling and progress to flow boiling using cryogenic fluids.
Application Deadline: 15th July 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Microfluidics applied to cell biology
Summary of PhD Program:
Micro-environments fabricated with fluid walls represent a new direction in the generation of biocompatible, fully accessible, microfluidic systems which enables unique experiments with living cells. The approach has been successfully demonstrated across a multitude of biological applications with a diverse range of multidisciplinary collaborators; applications include cell migration, chemotaxis, wounding, cell line development, single-cell cloning and microscale perfusion. Articles are published with “open access” and hence are freely available.
This project will advance the engineering understanding of fluid walls by developing, and experimentally validating, models for prediction of flows with time. The project will also develop and implement, with two independent biology groups, microenvironments for live cell based experiments. These collaborations will focus on developing in-vitro experiments to recapitulate 1) microenvironments for bone cancer and 2) neuron interactions via axons in the brain.
Application Deadline: 15th July 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Impact Failure of Amorphous Polymers
Summary of PhD Program:
There is a need, therefore, to produce material models that can be used in computer simulations of ballistic events, and which contain enough physical understanding of deformation and failure behaviour to provide insight into how processing affects the final response. This project will address this problem through a combination of experimental development at the University of Oxford, and modelling at the University of Nottingham, using polycarbonate as a model material. The ultimate goal is to provide models to understand and simulate phenomena observed in polymers under impact, and the effect of different polymer histories on these phenomena.
Application Deadline: 08 July 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Battery Modelling and Performance Testing
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD will consider both thermal modelling and battery swelling, which remains open from a theoretical standpoint. Previous work has established how changes in battery shape are observable on the cell level (the casing swells by as much as 1%). In defiance of conventional wisdom, experiments show that swelling depends on local temperature—which gives rise to thermal expansion—as strongly as it depends on the cell’s charge state.
Designing stacks that minimize swelling could reduce fatigue loads and extend life. This coupling of mechanical and thermal aspects is unexplored territory: novel physical models need to be created to account for mechanical effects, and feedback loops need to be developed that allow sophisticated coupled electrochemical/ thermal/mechanical models to be parameterized and validated experimentally against high fidelity measurements.
Application Deadline: 1st July 2024
