Is doing a PhD on acoustic streaming in liquid metals with and without an external magnetic field. The aim is to understand how acoustic and magnetohydrodynamic waves interact in laboraty conditions. Eliot's PhD is a co-tutell with INSA-Lyon.
Rishav Raj
Is doing a PhD to study experimentally the transition to turbulence in particulate pipe flows
Samy Lalloz
is doing a PhD in Co-tutelle between Coventry University and University Grenoble-Alpes (UGA), co-funded by an UGA "Emergence" grant, to study propagative phenomena in low-Rm MHD flows using theory and liquid metal experiments contucted at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble (LNCMMI/CNRS).
Martin Holdsworth
Is an Engineer supporting the design development and operation of our experimental platforms.
Martin's expertise includes, but is not limited to electronics, systems automation, mechanical construction and design.
Past Co-workers
Jacopo Gianfrani
was a post-doctoral research associate working on the nonlinear stability of convective flow under the influence of rotation and convection. The project was funded by EPSRC.
Dr Bjarne Vincent
Did an experimental and theoretical PhD on acoustically-driven flows, in Co-tutelle with INSA-Lyon
Dr Sam Booth
Did a PhD to study experimentally the effect of rotation on jets. His PhD is a Co-tutelle between Coventry University and the University of Warwick.
Ian Bates
Was an Engineer supporting the design development and operation of our experimental platforms.
Ian's expertise includes, but is not limited to, CAD, mechanical engineering, electronics, flow measurement techniques.
Dr Rishav Agrawal
Was working as Post-Doctoral researcher experimentally study the rotating magneto-convection in geometries with a Tangent Cylinder, to model the flow below the polar regions of the liquid core of the Earth. The project was funded by a research project grant from the Leverhulme Trust
Rishav went on to take up a position of Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool
Dr Abhishek Kumar
was a research associate working on mixed convection in a confined domain. He was studying the transition between regimes by means of linear stability and DNS based on the spectral elements methods.
Dr Sanjay Singh
Did a a PhD on the transition to turbulence in particulate pipe flows, with Chris Pringle and Alban Pothérat.
Sanjay is building a rig where he will observe fluid-particle interaction by means of optical methods. He went on to take a position of researcher at the HZDR (Germany)
Dr Jon Brons
Did a PhD on the turbulence in the presence of background rotation,
Alban Pothérat and Peter Thomas (University of Warwick). Jon conducts
experiments on a setup akin to FLOWCUBE, where turbluence is being driven
by fluid jets interacting in the background rotation of Warwick University's
large
rotating table. Jon is seeking to characterise how rotation determines the
dimensionality of rotating turbulence and how in turn, this topological
feature affects energy transfers.
Dr Nathaniel Baker
Did a PhD on turbulence in liquid metals. The project was initially funded by a 3-year Coventry University studentship, in Collaboration with the Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Grenoble INP.
He continued as a Research associate before taking up a position at ONERA in Paris.
Dr Kélig Aujogue
Did his PhD on the experimental simulation of magnetoconvection in the Earth Tangent cylinder,
funded by a 3.5 year Research Grant from the Leverhulme Trust, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, Bengalore (India).
Dr Kacper Kornet
worked from 2011 to 2015 on the development of numerical spectral methods based on the least dissipative modes for the simulation of wall bounded MHD flows. The project was be funded by a Research Grant from the Leverhulme Trust.
Kacper is now at DAMTP in Cambridge.
Dr Lintao Zhang
Simulated numerically the MHD flow in a bend, in view of
applications to the design of heat exchangers. His work was jointly funded by
a China collaborative fellowship from Coventry University and by the Chinese
Scholar Council. Lintao is now a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Swansea, where is he modeling manufacturing processes in metallurgy.
Dr Vincent Dousset
did his PhD between 2005 and 2009 on the numerical simulation of MHD and
non-MHD flows past 2D and 3D obstacles, using the finite volume method with
and without wall functions (funded by the University of Coventry).
[dp11,
dp10,
dp08].
He went on, as a post-doctoral researcher, to conducts experiments on electrically driven liquid metal MHD flows in a cubic container [prcd13_epje] (funded by the DFG),
and now works for ABB.
did his PhD between 11/2004 and 10/2010 on the experimental characterisation of the transition between two and three-dimensional MHD flows at low Magnetic
Reynolds Number [kp14_jfm, kp10, kpa09]. The project was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Rico is now working for Bosch.
Dr Vitali Dymkou
was working as a post-doctoral researcher on the numerical simulation of MHD turbulence based on the least dissipative modes, derived from the spectral analysis from the linear part of the Navier-Stokes equations
[pdy09,
dyp09]. The project was funded by
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 2006 to 2009.
Worked as a post-doctoral researcher between 2007 and 2008. He
developed a numerical and an experimental model to analyse the electromagnetic
control of a liquid metal free surface during the LASER welding or LASER
cladding processes [apt10]. This 1 year post-doctoral project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, in the frame of a "Schwerpunksprogramm" between 2007 and 2008. Oleg is now conducting experimental research on MHD flows at the Forchungzentrum Rossendorf.