Applications are invited for the place of Research Fellow in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics throughout the mission MAGNADO – The Magnetohydrodynamics of Liquid Metal Tornadoes (chosen for funding by the European Research Council (ERC) and funded via the UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee) on the Research Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems (FCS) at Coventry University. The profitable applicant will work underneath the supervision of the Principal Investigator, Associate Professor Dr Susanne Horn.

The goal of the analysis is to research experimentally and numerically the results of an exterior magnetic subject on rotating thermal convection to seek out the optimum circumstances for producing tornado-like vortices underneath laboratory circumstances. The goal might be to realize a greater understanding of the dynamo course of, i.e. how planets, together with our Earth, generate and maintain their very own magnetic subject.

The profitable candidate will perform measurement campaigns utilizing thermal measurements, PIV and UDV at two world-unique experimental amenities: the “Little Earth Experiment” operated at Coventry University and on the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble (Part of the French CNRS) and the “RoMag” machine on the SpinLab in UCLA (USA). This entails an roughly 6-month keep in Los Angeles, USA, and an roughly 1-month keep in Grenoble, France.

The laboratory investigations might be complemented by numerical simulations utilizing our in-house finite quantity code “goldfish” to foretell the optimum parameters for the experiments and to additional enable for a one-to-one comparability.

The profitable candidate ought to have a sophisticated information of fluid dynamics, ideally associated to geophysics, thermal convection and/or turbulence. Previous expertise and good experience with laboratory experiments is important and required to hold out the thermal convection experiments in liquid gallium and sulfuric acid. The numerical element entails conducting massively parallel simulations, thus, programming expertise and familiarity with HPC amenities are fascinating however not obligatory (hardly any programming is forseen throughout the mission).

The profitable candidate ought to maintain a PhD or equal in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Fluid Dynamics, Geophysics, Engineering, or associated topic with a confirmed observe document of manufacturing scientific output on the highest stage, as evidenced by high-quality journal publications.

The Research Fellow will work throughout the vibrant setting of the Fluid Dynamics group, a part of the Research Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems at Coventry University,   https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/centre-for-fluid-and-complex-systems. The group conducts each elementary and utilized analysis within the fields of convection, magnetohydrodynamics, turbulence and geophysical fluid dynamics in addition to different areas of fluid mechanics. In the REF2021, 95% of the group’s output, as a part of the arithmetic submission, was deemed “internationally excellent” or “world-leading”. The submit holder’s educational improvement might be supported via Coventry University’s Early Career Researcher help programmes, alongside different researcher improvement actions.

This place is full time on a hard and fast time period foundation for 48 months, ideally beginning 1^st April 2023. To apply please embrace your CV with a full publication record. Informal inquiries are inspired; please contact Dr Susanne Horn straight – susanne.horn@coventry.ac.uk.

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