UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE

Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Computational Fluid Dynamics & Heat Transfer)

Salary: Grade 7 £29,541 - £36,298 p.a.
 
We are seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant to join Professor L 
He’s research group at the Department of Engineering Science (Osney Thermo-
fluids Laboratory).  The post is funded by the EPSRC grant for a Future 
Conventional Power Generation Consortium with a number of university and power 
generation industrial partners, and is fixed-term for three years starting on 
15 July 2013 or soon thereafter.

The project will involve development and application of the fluid-solid coupled 
convection-conduction conjugate heat transfer methodology for steam turbine 
transient operations. You will be responsible for method development, coding 
implementation, verification/validation, capability demonstration and 
applications of the method to interesting and challenging high pressure and 
high temperature steam turbine problems. 

You should possess a Ph.D in computational fluid dynamics with a proven code 
development and application experience. 

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof L. He (email: Li.He@eng.ox.ac.uk). 
Please do not email the application. 

Only applications received before midday on 10 June 2013 can be considered. You 
will be required to upload a covering letter, a brief statement of research 
interests (describing how past experience and future plans fit with the 
advertised position), CV and the details of two referees as part of your online 
application (https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk,  use the Vacancy ID: 107769  to 
search for this job and the application procedure)