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As part of the ERC Consolidator grant “Particle Resolving Fluid-Sediment Interaction” (PARTRES), we have a
vacancy for a 3-year PhD position at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering within the Marine
Civil Engineering group.

Representing the interconnected processes of current, waves and sediment transport constitutes an
interdisciplinary challenge. In the current PhD project, a particle-based sediment transport model will be
created. Together with the underlying high-resolution and turbulence resolving flow solver, this will take a
step towards a more realistic representation of these processes. The sediment transport will be described
through a particle centric numerical framework. The turbulent flow calculations will be performed on a
Eulerian background mesh using an immersed boundary method for the solid boundaries and a two-phase
flow solver to capture complex free surface dynamics.

The numerical model used for those activities is the open-source hydrodynamics framework REEF3D
(www.reef3d.com). The model is developed in-house and the candidate will be a member of the research
team. The new sediment particle transport model will be implemented in REEF3D through a generic particle
framework that is parallelized for domain decomposition.

Please find the link to the application portal and detailed job description:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/availabl...ment-transport