EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics at Leeds

了解和表征流体的行为是解决众多具有广泛社会影响的工业和环境挑战的基础。利兹流体动力学CDT将为下一代训练有素的毕业生提供解决这些问题所需的技术和专业技能和知识。流体过程对经济生产力以及影响我们日常生活的健康和环境系统至关重要。例如，在微观尺度上，通过喷墨打印机喷嘴的液体流量控制着打印产品的质量，而微处理器周围的冷却剂流量则决定了组件是否会过热。在大尺度上，地球的大气状况取决于大气中气体的流动及其与陆地和海洋的相互作用。了解这些过程可以进行短期天气预报和长期气候预测;这两者对于工业、政府和社会规划和适应其环境至关重要。流体流动及其与结构的相互作用，对于我们日常生活中认为理所当然的一系列过程和产品的性能也很重要：流向我们家中的天然气和水，发电，车辆的燃油效率，我们工作场所的舒适度，疾病的诊断和治疗，以及我们购买的大多数商品的制造。了解、预测和控制流体动力学是降低成本、提高性能和增强所有这些过程和产品可靠性的关键。我们的CDT借鉴了我们在利兹大学的流体动力学研究专业知识的广度和深度。我们将与跨多个部门的外部合作伙伴合作提供综合的硕士/博士课程，包括能源，运输，环境，制造，咨询，国防，计算和医疗保健，他们强调了对熟练流体动力学家的需求。通过教学课程，团队项目，专业技能培训，外部参与和深入的博士研究项目相结合，我们将开发广泛而深入的技术专业知识，以及团队合作和解决问题的能力，以跨学科的方式应对挑战。我们将招募和指导来自一系列科学和工程背景的多元化群体，并提供一个充满活力和凝聚力的培训环境，以促进点对点的支持。我们将在数学建模，计算模拟和实验测量方面建立优势，并通过来自不同学校的学者共同监督的多学科项目，我们将使学生能够进行博士项目，加强并超越他们的UG学科。我们的学生将有机会与海外的行业合作伙伴或研究机构进行实习，参加暑期学校和学习挑战，并领导外展活动，成为流体动力学大使。行业和外部参与将是CDT的核心：所有硕士团队项目将是行业设置和指导的挑战（嵌入式位置）;每个学生都有机会在他们的博士项目中参与用户（从赞助，外部监督和设施访问，到指导）;我们的合作伙伴将积极参与监督我们的战略方向，管理和专业培训。许多组件将由我们的合作伙伴提供，包括研究软件工程，负责任的创新，商业意识和领导力。

Understanding and characterising the behaviour of fluids is fundamental to numerous industrial and environmental challenges with wide-ranging societal impact. The CDT in Fluid Dynamics at Leeds will provide the next generation of highly trained graduates with the technical and professional skills and knowledge needed to tackle such problems.Fluid processes are critical to both economic productivity and the health and environmental systems that affect our daily lives. For example, at the microscale, the flow of liquid through the nozzle of an ink-jet printer controls the quality of the printed product, whilst the flow of a coolant around a microprocessor determines whether or not the components will overheat. At the large scale, the atmospheric conditions of the Earth depend upon the flow of gases in the atmosphere and their interaction with the land and oceans. Understanding these processes allows short term weather forecasting and long term climate prediction; both are crucial for industry, government and society to plan and adapt their environments. Fluid flows, and their interactions with structures, are also important to the performance of an array of processes and products that we take for granted in our everyday lives: gas and water flow to our homes, generation of electricity, fuel efficiency of vehicles, the comfort of our workplaces, the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and the manufacture of most of the goods that we buy. Understanding, predicting and controlling Fluid Dynamics is key to reducing costs, increasing performance and enhancing the reliability of all of these processes and products. Our CDT draws on the substantial breadth and depth of our Fluid Dynamics research expertise at the University of Leeds. We will deliver an integrated MSc/PhD programme in collaboration with external partners spanning multiple sectors, including energy, transport, environment, manufacturing, consultancy, defence, computing and healthcare, who highlight their need for skilled Fluid Dynamicists. Through a combination of taught courses, team projects, professional skills training, external engagement and an in-depth PhD research project we will develop broad and deep technical expertise plus the team-working and problem-solving skills to tackle challenges in a trans-disciplinary manner. We will recruit and mentor a diverse cohort from a range of science and engineering backgrounds and provide a vibrant and cohesive training environment to facilitate peer-to-peer support. We will build strengths in mathematical modelling, computational simulation and experimental measurement, and through multi-disciplinary projects co-supervised by academics from different Schools, we will enable students to undertake a PhD project that both strengthens and moves them beyond their UG discipline. Our students will be outward facing with opportunities to undertake placements with industry partners or research organisations overseas, to participate in summer schools and study challenges and to lead outreach activities, becoming ambassadors for Fluid Dynamics. Industry and external engagement will be at the heart of the CDT: all MSc team projects will be challenges set and mentored by industry (with placements embedded); each student will have the opportunity for user engagement in their PhD project (from sponsorship, external supervision and access to facilities, to mentoring); and our partners will be actively involved in overseeing our strategic direction, management and professional training. Many components will be provided by or with our partners, including research software engineering, responsible innovation, commercial awareness and leadership.