PhD Studentship in Aerospace Engineering

PhD Studentship in Aerospace Engineering

University of Nottingham

United Kingdom

Area

Location

UK Other

Closing Date

Friday 27 February 2026

Reference

ENG294

Overview

Join a fully funded, industry-sponsored PhD at the University of Nottingham (Mechanical & Aerospace Systems research group), in partnership with the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC). You will push the limits of multiphysics CFD for laser manufacturing by developing a next-generation simulation capability for laser drilling (with relevance to additive manufacturing).

Your work will capture compressible gas dynamics, heat transfer, free-surface/melt behaviour, and mass transfer driven by phase change, within a GPU-accelerated solver to reduce simulation turnaround times.

You will develop and validate new capabilities within XCALibre.jl, Nottingham’s GPU-accelerated, AI-ready CFD framework, turning complex co...