Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Fluid Mechanics: Wave-turbulence interactions

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We announce a postdoctoral fellowship as part of an ERC project, for experimental work in the one-of-a-kind water channel facility at NTNU Trondheim, Norway. The experiments will be unique in combining tailored waves, turbulence and mean flow simultaneously. The fellowship has a duration of 4 years starting January 2023. This is a rare opportunity for an excellent candidate with experimental background to work in a highly active, ambitious, multinational research team in a stimulating environment.

You will work in the group led by Professor Simen Å. Ellingsen.  

The project WaTurSheD, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), concerns the triple interactions of waves, turbulence and shear currents (WTC) and how they mix waters beneath a water surface. How heat and gas are mixed into the ocean is crucial to ocean and climate modelling, but the underlying physics are not well understood, something the project will address; thus, the research is a scientifically exciting study of fundamental fluid mechanics, and important to our future.

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions.

You will be responsible for an extensive laboratory campaign in the Large Water Channel (Jooss et al. 2020, J. Fluid Mech. 911, A4 ), in close collaboration with several other postdocs and PhD students.

The applicant should include a brief research proposal of no more than one page (see below).