In March 2021, The University of Manchester signed a 10 year collaboration agreement with the UKAEA, resulting in a £15M investment for two new research groups; Digital Engineering and Tritium. I lead the Digital Engineering group. The aim is to build a virtual garage where engineers can try out new designs for fusion reactors more quickly than building full-scale prototypes. If you're working at the interface of fusion energy and any digital engineering technology (physics-based modelling, surrogate modelling, extreme-scale parallelism, visualisation, gamification, code coupling) this could be your new home.
I will be posting details of job opportunities as they come along.
For example, I would be willing to sponsor the right candidate for a prestigious Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw fellowship:
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship
If you're interested in how mechanical property predictions can be made of Additive Manufactured microstructures, then I recommend attending this webinar being held in a few weeks.
A program for 3 way coupling between open-source software Elmer FEM, OpenFOAM and Dakota has been developed.
The program along with examples can be found here: https://github.com/AnjaliSandip/ElmerFEM-OpenFOAM-Dakota
Capabilities: The interface provides an open-source framework that integrates data analytics, finite element and finite volume methods.
This framework enables a richer understanding of multi-physics/phase predictions in a time sensitive manner. Its key features include uncertainty quantification, surrogate modeling, parallel programming and robust post-processing capabilities.