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.

Fully funded PhD projects may be offered to those who apply for DTP EPSRC scholarships. For eligibility and more details click here. If you are interested in this funding opportunity under my supervision, please do not hesitate to contact me via email.

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

• Automatic computational fluid-dynamics
• Development of power producing, heating and cooling strategies using deep geothermal wells
• Optimisation of geothermal energy extraction
• CFD modelling of plasma flow control

Research supervision

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