Applied Mechanics’ activities are characterized by academic excellence in an international environment and interaction with the society, industry and various types of networks. The Department is one of the leading environments within Vehicle and Mechanical Engineering research. The topics encompass both fundamental and applied research questions. Our goal is to deliver sustainable, technological soulutions for society through applied mechanics.

Our research contributes among other things to more energy efficient and safer vehicles, better and more environmentally friendly manufacturing processes, modeling light weight materials, safer rail transports and sustainable energy supply.

The Department of Applied Mechanics offers a wide range of courses in the undergraduate programmes, in addition to two international Masters programmes in Automotive Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Courses are available within the three graduate schools: Machine and Vehicle Systems, Solid and Structural Mechanics and Thermo and Fluid Dynamics. In addition Applied Mechanics provides international continuation courses.

The department has approximately 190 employees.

Information about the project

The Division of Fluid Dynamics offers a two-year post-doc position (scholarship). The post-doc will work in the DRAGY project (Drag Reduction via Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow Control). DRAGY is an EU-China project, with 12 EU partners and 12 Chinese partners. The project starts 1 April 2016 and has a duration of three years. The object of the project is to investigate the problem of turbulent drag reduction through the investigation of active/passive flow-control techniques to manipulate the drag produced by the flow structures in turbulent boundary layers.

The post-doc will study boundary-layer control in relation to drag reduction. Existing DNS/LES databases will be used and supplementary DNS/LES simulations for turbulent channel flow will be carried out. The analysis will be based on an examination of temporal and spatial correlation between the inner and outer layer. The object is to control the boundary layer by modifying the near-wall turbulent structures which in turn will affect the turbulent properties in the outer layer. Chalmers in-house finite volume codes CALC-LES (written in Fortran 77) and/or CALC++ (written in C++ using the PETSc library) will be used.

Major responsibilities

Your major responsibility as postdoc is to perform your own research in a research group. Another important aspect involves collaboration within academia and with society at large. The position is meritorious for future research duties within academia as well as industry/the public sector.

Position summary

The selected post-doc will get a two-year scholarship. Hence the applicant must not have lived in Sweden for the past three years. Scholarship holders who are in receipt of scholarships to finance their individual education/research while at Chalmers are not regarded as staff and are not eligible for benefits available to staff.

The position is limited to a maximum of two years (1+1).

Qualifications

To qualify for the position of postdoc, you must have a doctoral degree in Mechanics Engineering, Physics or equivalent; the degree should generally not be older than two years. You are expected to demonstrate good potential within research and education.

The position requires sound verbal and written communication skills in English. Chalmers offers Swedish courses.

Chalmers continuously strives to be an attractive employer. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

Application deadline: 1 May 2016

For questions, please contact:

Professor Lars Davidson

Division of Fluid Dynami

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Arbetsgivare Namn: Chalmers Tekniska Högskola AB

Arbetsgivare adress: Chalmers, Göteborg 41296 Göteborg

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Jobb kort beskrivning: Mechanical engineers

Land: Sweden

Område: Västra Götalands län

Avtalstid: Permanent

Typ av kontrakt: Full time

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