Learning The Dynamics Of Turbulence To Inform Practical Fluids' Modelling

Turbulence is the great unsolved problem in classical physics yet modelling turbulence appropriately is vital for effective engineering design of aircraft, wind turbines and combustion processes and for understanding our evolving environment. This project will make use of recent theoretical developments and results from our own work to consider how to construct the next generation of practical engineering closures for turbulent flows. The pathway to the future looks to be a stochastic differential equation approach but how best to formulate this given the nonlocal and nonlinear properties of turbulent flows is an open problem. This project will involve looking at the equations afresh and then using machine learning methods to constrain the search of the relevant parameter space to develop a new modelling approach. 94% of Loughborough’s research impact is rated world-leading or internationally excellent. REF 2021

The standard University IELTS English language requirement is 6.5 overall with 6.0 in each individual element (reading, writing, listening and speaking).

International students: £29,500

UK students: £5,238

UK/Home: £5,238

International: £29,500

October 2026, February 2027, July 2027

31 December 2026

• Loughborough, United Kingdom