Dr James Tyacke
Senior Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering (Aerodynamics)

Topics

I am interested in supervising PhD projects primarily in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of complex flows including Aeroacoustics, Aerospace, Electronics Cooling, Urban and Geothermal Energy flows.  Modern High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures are being leveraged for both simulation and analysis of large data sets (Big Data), revealing unsteady flow physics.  Further interests include increasing CFD automation, including mesh generation and optimisation, solution analysis and feedback into knowledge-based systems using Machine Learning and AI.

An EPSRC funded Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA) PhD studentship is currently avilable for Next-Generation CFD modelling of High-Pressure Turbine cooling.

For Chinese applicants, Brunel also has 20 PhD scholarships available. Please get in touch to discuss potential projects.

A range of self-funded projects are also possible, focusing on multi-fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). 

Example projects: Example PhD projects

DTP funding details: DTP details

Research degree funding: Research degree funding

External funding: External funding

PhD projects for research students

• Development of power producing, heating and cooling strategies using deep geothermal wells
• Next-Generation CFD modelling of High-Pressure Turbine cooling

Research supervision

I currently supervise a wide variety of PhD, MSc and undergraduate projects