Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Wind Energy

We’re searching for a full-time Postdoctoral Analysis Assistant to affix the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Group on the Division of Engineering Science in central Oxford.  The publish is funded by the UKRI and is fixed-term till thirty first January 2026.

The profitable applicant will be a part of a analysis programme on the fluid mechanics of offshore renewable vitality. This function is concentrated on the aerodynamics of wind generators and small teams of generators to grasp their efficiency in regular and unsteady movement situations consultant of the offshore wind surroundings. You’ll contribute to the event of the analysis group’s numerical instruments akin to actuator line turbine and help construction illustration fashions, in addition to contributing to the group’s general analysis efforts in rotor fluid mechanics.

You need to maintain a related PhD (or be close to completion) and have a powerful publication historical past. A powerful background in computational fluid dynamics and wind turbine fluid mechanics along with the power to grasp the aerodynamics of wind vitality technology and atmospheric flows is crucial.

Casual enquiries could also be addressed to Dr Christopher Vogel (e mail: [email protected])  

For extra details about working on the Division, see

www.eng.ox.ac.uk/about/work-with-us/

Solely on-line purposes acquired earlier than noon on nineteenth April 2024 may be thought of. You can be required to add a overlaying letter/supporting assertion, together with a short assertion of analysis pursuits (describing how previous expertise and future plans match with the choice standards of the marketed place), CV and the small print of two referees as a part of your on-line software.

The Division holds an Athena Swan Bronze award, highlighting its dedication to selling ladies in Science, Engineering and Expertise.

Key phrases: 

Wind vitality, Fluid mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Wind generators