Postdoctoral Research Associate in DNS and LES of Compressible Combustion

• Full time, 21 months fixed term. Located on the Darlington Campus at the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering (AMME)
• Contribute to an exciting research program elucidating the fundamentals of compressible combustion and contributing to advancements in LES modelling
• Base Salary, Level A $79K - $107K + 17% superannuation

About the opportunity

The School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering (AMME) is currently seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in DNS and LES of compressible combustion to work with a team of computational and experimental experts in three leading institutions (Sydney University, University of Queensland, RMIT).

The research program will focus on the development of new understanding of shock-interactions with reacting shear layers relevant to high-speed propulsion systems such as rotating detonation engines and scramjets. This understanding will then be used to develop new turbulent-chemistry interaction models for Large Eddy Simulation, based on Conditional Moment Closure (CMC) and Multiple-Mapping Conditioning (MMC).

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• augment existing solvers with appropriate reaction mechanism for DNS of compressible shear layers with shock waves
• undertake DNS of reacting compressible shear layers on national HPC systems
• develop post-processing tools for key unclosed terms and undertake analysis to provide a fundamental understanding of these processes
• propose and validate simplified models for Large Eddy Simulation
• lead the writing and submission of very high-quality journal publications based on this program of research
• present the research at leading conferences worldwide, and presentations in regular progress reviews with our two University partners.

About you

The University values courage and creativity; openness and engagement; inclusion and diversity; and respect and integrity. As such, we see the importance of recruiting talent aligned to these values and are looking for Postdoctoral Research Associate who has:

• a PhD, or has submitted PhD thesis in reacting flows or compressible flows
• experience developing solvers for either reacting flows or compressible flows
• experience analysing reacting flows and/or compressible flows
• a demonstrated ability to write high quality journal publications for top international outlets
• strong presentation skills.

The following would be highly desirable:

• experience with flows relevant to high speed propulsion in particular
• experience with high fidelity combustion modelling approaches such as MMC and/or CMC.
• experience in computations on national-level facilities (typically several thousand cores, large data post-processing.

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