Loughborough 3-week Mini Project  

The first week of this project builds upon the taught material from the MRes with academics from Loughborough presenting seminars discussing the major aerothermal challenges for future combustion systems and showcasing the research being undertaken at Loughborough.

In the subsequent two weeks students will gain hands-on experience of the key computational and experimental techniques being used to answer these challenges.  Students will use some of Loughborough's unique test facilities to investigate, for example, combustion system aerodynamic or two-phase fuel injector flows using advanced optical techniques.  This will also involve advanced data analysis techniques such as Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) to examine large data sets. To compliment this students will be given a solid grounding in technical computing which will involve building a small Linux cluster and developing a parallel code to run on it. 

Thus, in addition to furthering the students’ knowledge of combustion systems the mini-project will also help teach the skills necessary to produce and examine so-called “big-data”.

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