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Advanced modelling for two-phase reacting flow
Edward Richardson (Investigator)
Engine designers want computer programs to help them invent ways to use less fuel and produce less pollution. This research aims to provide an accurate and practical model for the injection and combustion of liquid fuel blends.
B-meson coupling with relativistic heavy quarks
Jonathan Flynn (Investigator), Ben Samways, Dirk Broemmel, Patrick Fritzsch
We non-perturbatively compute the coupling between B* and B pi meson states relying on relativistic heavy quarks and domain wall light fermions. The coupling is of importance for an effective description of hadronic heavy meson decays.
BRECcIA - Building REsearch Capacity for sustainable water and food security In sub-saharan Africa
The BRECcIA project is aimed at developing research and researchers to understand water and food security challenges in sub-Saharan Africa
Can we calculate the pKa of new drugs, based on their structure alone?
Chris-Kriton Skylaris (Investigator), Chris Pittock, Jacek Dziedzic
The pKa of an active compound in a pharmaceutical drug affects how it is absorbed and distributed around the human body. While there are various computational methods to predict pKa using only molecular structure data, these tend to be specialised to only one class of drug - we aim to generate a more generalised prediction method using quantum mechanics.
Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Computational Modelling
Hans Fangohr, Ian Hawke, Peter Horak (Investigators), Susanne Ufermann Fangohr, Thorsten Wittemeier, Kieran Selvon, Alvaro Perez-Diaz, David Lusher, Ashley Setter, Emanuele Zappia, Hossam Ragheb, Ryan Pepper, Stephen Gow, Jan Kamenik, Paul Chambers, Robert Entwistle, Rory Brown, Joshua Greenhalgh, James Harrison, Jonathon Waters, Ioannis Begleris, Craig Rafter
The £10million Centre for Doctoral Training was launched in November 2013 and is jointly funded by EPSRC, the University of Southampton, and its partners.
The NGCM brings together world-class simulation modelling research activities from across the University of Southampton and hosts a 4-year doctoral training programme that is the first of its kind in the UK.
Challenging Topological Prejudice - Automated Airframe Layout Design
Andras Sobester (Investigator), Paul Chambers
Aircraft preliminary design scopes are drastically narrowed by topological prejudice. Modern aircraft have settled on the same 'tube plus wing and cruciform tail' type topology that has been adopted through their ancestry, with no scientific evidence that this layout is optimal. This research project poses the question:
“Given a topologically flexible aircraft geometry that is free of prejudice or bias, would a sophisticated multi-disciplinary optimization process yield a conventional layout?”
Deep Optimisation
Jamie Caldwell
The project will develop the implementation and application of a new optimisation technique. 'Deep optimisation' combines deep learning techniques in neural networks with distributed optimisation methods to create a dynamically re-scalable optimisation process. This project will develop this technique to better-understand its capabilities and limitations and develop GPU implementations. The protein structure prediction problem will be used as the main test application.
Dipole moment and theoretical spectroscopy: a computational approach
Chris-Kriton Skylaris (Investigator), Valerio Vitale
The present project represents a first step towards the implementation of a new technique to calculate the whole vibrational spectra of molecules in a formally exact way, which fully takes into account anharmonicity and conformational transitions, at a finite temperature, both in gas phase and in solution in a single ab initio molecular dynamics simulation.
Direct Numerical Simulations of transsonic turbine tip gap flow
Richard Sandberg (Investigator)
Direct Numerical Simulations are conducted of the transsonic flow through the tip gap at real engine conditions.
Eddy-resol?ving Simulation?s for Turbomachi?nery Applicatio?ns
Richard Sandberg (Investigator), Li-Wei Chen
Traditionally, the design of turbomachinery components has been exclusively accomplished with steady CFD, with Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models being the predominant choice. With computing power continuously increasing, high-fidelity numerical simulations of turbomachinery components are now becoming a valuable research tool for validating the design process and continued development of design tool.
In the current project, Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and other eddy-resolving approaches will be performed of turbomachinery components to establish benchmark data for design tools, and to investigate physical mechanisms that cannot be captured by traditional CFD approaches.
Effects of trailing edge elasticity on trailing edge noise
Richard Sandberg (Investigator), Stefan C. Schlanderer
This work considers the effect of trailing edge elasticity on the acoustic and hydrodynamic field of a trailing edge flow. To that end direct numerical simulations that are fully coupled to a structural solver are conducted.
Fidelity optimisation in an atomic quantum computer
Timothy Freegarde (Investigator), Jack Saywell
Development of optimised composite pulses for atomic quantum computers with the aim of reducing systematic errors in information processing caused by variations in laser intensity and environment.
Is fine-scale turbulence universal?
Richard Sandberg (Investigator), Patrick Bechlars
Complementary numerical simulations and experiments of various canonical flows will try to answer the question whether fine-scale turbulence is universal.
Magnetic dynamics under the Landau-Lifshitz-Baryakhtar equation
Hans Fangohr (Investigator), Weiwei Wang
Magnetic dynamics using the Landau-Lifshitz-Baryakhtar (LLBar) equation that the nonlocal damping is included as well as the scalar Gilbert damping.
Magnon-Driven Domain-Wall Dynamics in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
Hans Fangohr (Investigator), Weiwei Wang
The domain wall motion induced by spin waves (magnons) in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction is studied in this project.
Massively-Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics
Simon Cox, Stephen Turnock, Alexander Phillips (Investigators), James Hawkes
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a numerical method for modelling fluid flows and heat transfer - and is used in many industries. It can be used to model dynamics around aircraft, ships and land vehicles; and also has uses in engine design, architecture, weather forecasting, medicine, computer-generated imagery (CGI) and much more. To harness the full power of CFD, it is necessary to utilise the full power of modern supercomputers. This project aims to improve the scalabilty of existing CFD codes so that more complex problems can be tackled efficiently.
Mathematical tools for analysis of genome function, linkage disequilibrium structure and disease gene prediction
Mahesan Niranjan, Andrew Collins, Reuben Pengelly (Investigators)
This iPhD project uses a Gaussian Bayesian Networks framework through Machine learning methods to predict which genes are involved in the development of different diseases.
Mathematical tools for analysis of genome function, linkage disequilibrium structure and disease gene prediction
Mahesan Niranjan, Andrew Collins, Reuben Pengelly (Investigators)
This PhD project uses a Monte Carlo molecular simulation processes approach to predict which genes are involved in the development of different diseases.
Porous Media and Hydrothermal Circulation in Weakened Ocean Crust
Formation of oceanic crust is an interplay between magma and the cooling hydrothermal system above that its own heat drives. To understand this system we must understand where and how water circulates through the crust.
Ocean crust is riddled with faults and other permeable pathways along which water preferentially flows. We seek to use basic numerical models of circulation in porous media to understand how much of an influence on crust formation these anomalous features have, compared to the bulk, unfractured crust.
Precision study of critical slowing down in lattice simulations of the CP^{N-1} model
Jonathan Flynn, Andreas Juttner (Investigators), Andrew Lawson
This project involves the study of critical slowing down (CSD): a property that may arise when taking measurements in Monte Carlo simulations. In order to study and quantify this phenomenon we have performed extensive simulations of the CP^{N-1} model. By studying the properties of the Monte Carlo algorithms in this model, we hope to make algorithmic improvements that can then be employed in simulations of physical quantum field theories, such as in lattice quantum chromodynamics (lattice QCD).
pyQCD
Matthew Spraggs
A basic Python package to perform coarse lattice QCD simulations on desktop and workstation computers.
Supernova Rates in the Local Universe
Mark Sullivan (Investigator), Christopher Frohmaier
This project will calculate the frequency of exploding stars -- or supernovae -- in the nearby universe. We simulate a 'toy universe' by exploding billions of stars in a computer, and then artificially 'observing' these explosions by replicating a real astronomical sky survey, the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). The results of this simulation allows us to discover the rate at which supernovae occur in the local universe each year.
Supersonic axisymmetric wakes
Richard Sandberg (Investigator)
Direct numerical simulations are used to shed more light on structure formation and evolution in supersonic wakes.
Towards biologically-inspired active-compliant-wing micro-air-vehicles
Richard Sandberg (Investigator), Sonia Serrano-Galiano
Despite a good knowledge of the physiology of bats and birds, engineering applications with active dynamic wing compliance capability are currently few and far between. Recent advances in development of electroactive materials together with high-fidelity numerical/experimental methods provide a foundation to develop biologically-inspired dynamically-active wings that can achieve "on-demand" aerodynamic performance. However this requires first to develop a thorough understanding of the dynamic coupling between the electro-mechanical structure of the membrane wing and its unsteady aerodynamics. In this collaborative initiative between the University of Southampton and Imperial College London, we are developing an integrated research programme that carries out high-fidelity experiments and computations to achieve a fundamental understanding of the dynamics of aero-electro-mechanical coupling in dynamically-actuated compliant wings. The goal is to utilise our understanding and devise control strategies that use integral actuation schemes to improve aerodynamic performance of membrane wings. The long-term goal of this project is to enable the use of soft robotics technology to build integrally-actuated wings for Micro Air Vehicles (MAV) that mimic the dynamic shape control capabilities of natural flyers.
Vibrational spectroscopy from ab initio molecular dynamics
Hans Fangohr, Chris-Kriton Skylaris (Investigators), Valerio Vitale
In this project I used the Fourier transform of the time correlation function (FTTCF) formalism, that allows to compute the vibrational spectra of molecules both in gas and condensed phase, at finite temperature, in a single ab initio molecular dynamics simulation.
Vortices in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
Janne Ruostekoski (Investigator), Justin Lovegrove
We numerically study the effect of spin degrees of freedom on the structure of a vortex in an atomic superfluid. Such objects are of interest as macroscopic examples of quantum phenomena, as well as for their analogies in other fields, such as cosmology and high energy physics.
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