Postdoc in fluid mechanics and heat management

Job description

Cheaper access to space provides societal benefits in the form of increased equality globally. Effective heat exchange is crucial to many industrial sectors to reach global climate goals. Additively manufactured (AM) metallic components of relatively complex shapes ultimately may result in a cheaper component. Raw surfaces on additively manufactured components differ significantly in structure and characteristics compared to traditional knowledge about surface roughness and its influence on pressure losses and heat transfer is partly unexplored ground. The study is broad and ranges from manufacturing to component design when e.g. various manufacturing parameters such as build direction have a large impact on material structure and surface roughness and in turn have a large impact on hydraulic, strength and thermal design of components. A concentrated project part will be focusing on modeling the effect of surface roughness validated with experiments and linked to surface measurement and manufacturing parameters. On a higher level, manufacturing of AM heat exchangers in a European collaboration will be managed followed by final component testing and evaluation of hydraulic and thermal performance. Cooperation with industrial partners in national and international projects is expected, including e.g. gas turbines, rocket engines and heat exchanger entities. Candidates should have proven background and interest in thermodynamics, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics and experimental methods.

What we offer

• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future.
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Work in Stockholm, in close proximity to nature
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH

Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• Research expertise and proven experience from doctoral thesis, authoring of scientific publications or authoring of industry reports (or industry equivalent), in the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and experimental methods
• Teaching abilities
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality
• As a person you have both collaborative abilities and are able to work with independence

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• It is meritorious to have previous work (numerical & experimental) with boundary layer flows, heat transfer, surface effects and additive manufacturing

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

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To apply for the position

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Feel free to insert the items below so that you receive the documentation you need for the selection process. The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. Maximally two pages long.
• Copy of selected authored reports, scientific articles (or industrial equivalent) demonstrating
  previous experience with CFD and/or experiments applied to thermal engineering (Maximum 3 reports, all in PDF format).

Your complete application must be received by KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight

CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, three years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

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About KTH

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