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Six New PhD Students Join the CoMo Group

29 October 2007
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The six new PhD students who joined the CoMo group in October, 2007

The CoMo group has welcomed six new PhD students over the past few weeks. They are (left to right in the photo above) Markus Sander, Laurence McGlashan, Raphael Shirley, Weerapong Phadungsukanan, Jethro Akroyd and Peter Man.

Laurence will be working on a project entitled 'Studying reactive flow with particles/bubbles in complicated geometries'. The aim of this project is to model particle formation and transport in reactive flows by the coupling and development of stochastic particle algorithms to commercial CFD codes which can handle complicated geometries.

Raphael is working on the production of Tioxide; using computational quantum chemistry he hopes to improve current estimates of the overall rate coefficient.

Weerapong will be working on a model fitting using several optimization algorithms. The aim of this project is to develop a solution mapping software that automatically parameterises any model to fit any existing experimental data.

Jethro will be working on a project entitled 'Modelling of Turbulent Reacting Flows'. The aim of this project is to Develop, investigate and implement computational and numerical methods to model chemical engineering problems in turbulent reacting flows. Potential study problems include, but are not limited to, closure of the chemical source term in turbulent reacting flows and efficient approximations to the solution of population balance equations to enable coupled transport, reaction and particulate system models. Potential applications include efficient CFD modelling of combustion and soot production in internal combustion engines.

Peter's research project is titled 'Sensitivity of Particulate Processes'. The main idea is to develop numerical algorithms that calculate the sensitivities of various particle systems (mostly coagulation), but have as small a variance as possible.