Research Assistant/research Fellow - Uxbridge, United Kingdom - Brunel University

Brunel University

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Uxbridge, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Experimental Research in Heat Transfer in Spray Cooling Systems

Position Title:
Research Assistant / Research fellow

Department/College:
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences

Brunel University London, Uxbridge Campus

Research Assistant Salary:
£35,490 to £37,488 inclusive of London Weighting with potential to progress to £38,532 per annum inclusive of London Weighting through sustained exceptional contribution.

Research Fellow Salary:
£39,607 to £43,029 inclusive of London Weighting with potential to progress to £46,771 per annum inclusive of London Weighting through sustained exceptional contribution.

Hours:
Full-time

Contract Type: 3-Year Fixed-term

Brunel University London was established in 1966 and is a leading multidisciplinary research-intensive technology university delivering economic, social and cultural benefits.

The post holder at Brunel will carry out research which combines cutting-edge experimental techniques that furnish spatiotemporally-resolved diagnostics of the thermal and hydrodynamic fields and data that will be compared with modelling and 3-D high-fidelity numerical simulations performed by our partners.

The deep insights generated from the project will be harnessed to provide heat transfer tools that are practically implementable by our industrial partners in order to maximise impact.

The post holder will design, construct, commission and validate an experimental facility and carry out experiments in single and two-phase spray cooling systems.

Different working fluids will be used as sprays to provide a sufficient range of thermophysical properties. The spray cooling area will cover the active heat transfer area for maximum cooling and heat transfer data consistency. Smooth and enhanced heat transfer surfaces will be studied.

The experiments will correlate single and two-phase heat transfer rates from the surfaces to the fluid properties, spray nozzle diameter and height-surface area ratio, inlet pressure, volume flow rate and surface superheat.

A high-speed, high-resolution camera and an imaging system will be used to capture the droplet size distribution and velocities plus the spray drop impact on the liquid film and the heat transfer process.

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Interviews will take place April, in person preferably or virtually if not possible
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