EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics across Scales

我们的目标是建立一个世界级的流体动力学博士培训中心。CDT将由航空、生物工程、化学工程、土木工程、地球科学与工程、数学和机械工程等部门合作建立。CDT的独特之处在于在广泛的跨学科领域培养学生，支持帝国理工在国际和英国领先的三个关键支柱：空气动力学，微流和流体表面相互作用，重点是多尺度物理和它们之间的联系，让学生了解不同现象背后的共性，并在新兴和新技术的研究中利用它们。CDT的培训将整合理论、实验和计算方法以及数学和建模技能，并将与广泛的工业合作伙伴合作，他们将为培训、研究和推广做出贡献。培训的一个中心方面将侧重于跨音阶的不同现象和技术及其相互关系。空气动力学和流体动力学是CDT优先考虑的领域，在成形能力方面被列为“维护”。他们对英国经济至关重要（见“Je-S形式的影响摘要”），目前对博士级研究人员的需求很高，但真正缺乏的是对流体流动的多尺度性质有足够的基本理解，并具有可以立即在各种工业环境中使用的数值，实验和专业技能。我们的CDT将通过广泛接触空气动力学和流体力学学科的多面性来解决这些迫切的培训需求；研究方法方面的正式培训；与业界紧密互动；培训不可转移的技能；严密的管理结构（包括外部咨询委员会，以及基于监测框架和绩效指标的质量保证程序）；以及公众参与活动。拟议的CDT与帝国理工学院的研究战略和愿景完全一致，并得到了帝国理工学院的全力支持。CDT将充分利用帝国理工大学60位参与学者的卓越研究成果，其中国际领先的研究人员占很大比例（其中15位是feng， 4位是FRS）， 5*级（RAE）部门，自2008年以来，流体动力学研究收入为9300万英镑（其中约32%来自工业界），其中包括epsrc资助的流体动力学项目赠款（英国少于4或5个）和ERC流体动力学高级研究员赠款（欧洲少于7个）。CDT还将利用我们现有的世界级培训基础设施，包括众多博士预科培训计划，高性能计算和实验室设施，流体动力学特定系列研讨会，以及我们在培养博士生和毕业生就业能力方面的杰出记录。工程学院还致力于开发定制的专用空间，这对队伍建设活动非常重要，并建立了一个流动网络，以加强部门间的合作，造福于cdt。

Our goal is to create a world-class Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)in fluid dynamics. The CDT will be a partnership between theDepartments of Aeronautics, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering,Civil Engineering, Earth Science and Engineering, Mathematics, andMechanical Engineering. The CDT's uniqueness stems from trainingstudents in a broad, cross-disciplinary range of areas, supportingthree key pillars where Imperial is leading internationally and in theUK: aerodynamics, micro-flows, and fluid-surface interactions, withemphasis on multi-scale physics and on connections among them,allowing the students to understand the commonalities underlyingdisparate phenomena and to exploit them in their research on emergingand novel technologies. The CDT's training will integratetheoretical, experimental and computational approaches as well asmathematical and modelling skills and will engage with a wide range ofindustrial partners who will contribute to the training, the researchand the outreach. A central aspect of the training will focus on thedifferent phenomena and techniques across scales and theirinter-relations.Aerodynamics and fluid dynamics are CDT priority areas classified as"Maintain" in the Shaping Capabilities landscape. They are of keyimportance to the UK economy (see 'Impact Summary in the Je-S form')and there currently is a high demand for, but a real dearth of,doctoral-level researchers with sufficient fundamental understandingof the multi-scale nature of fluid flows, and with numerical,experimental, and professional skills that can immediately be usedwithin various industrial settings. Our CDT will address these urgenttraining needs through a broad exposure to the multi-faceted nature ofthe aerodynamics and fluid mechanics disciplines; formal training inresearch methodology; close interaction with industry; training intransferable skills; a tight management structure (with an externaladvisory board, and quality-assurance procedures based on a monitoringframework and performance indicators); and public engagementactivities.The proposed CDT aligns perfectly with Imperial's research strategyand vision and has its full support. The CDT will leverage theresearch excellence of the 60 participating academics across Imperial,demonstrated by a high proportion of internationally-leadingresearchers (among whom are 15 FREng, and, 4 FRS), 5*-rated (RAE)departments, and a fluid dynamics research income of 93M pounds sinde2008 (with about 32% from industry) including a number of EPSRC-fundedProgramme Grants in fluid dynamics (less than 4 or 5 in the UK) and anumber of ERC Advanced Investigator Grants in fluid dynamics (lessthan about 7 across Europe). The CDT will also leverage our existingworld-class training infra-structure, featuring numerous pre-doctoraltraining programmes, high-performance computing and laboratoryfacilities, fluid dynamic-specific seminar series, and our outstandingtrack-record in training doctoral students and in graduateemployability. The Faculty of Engineering has also committed to thedevelopment of bespoke dedicated space which is important forcohort-building activities, and the establishment of a fluids networkto strengthen inter-departmental collaborations for the benefit of theCDT.