Salary/stipend: 

Starting stipend (tax free) per annum is the EPSRC stipend of £13,863 with a top-up of £3.5k. Additional resources will be available for research expenses, such as conference visits.

The project:

Up to 7 PhD studentships are available as part of a large government and industry funded initiativehttp://www.ati.org.uk/news/100-million-propel-future-aerospace-industry/ aiming to transform the UK’s current overall aircraft and wing design capability. The commercial air transport industry is about to undergo a step‐change to meet future economic, mobility and environmental challenges, and this project aims to position Airbus and its partners at the forefront of this change by developing a rapid, world‐beating wing design and integration capability. The AWI (Agile Wing Integration) is an Airbus led consortium aiming to develop a rapid Wing Design and Integration capability and the Bristol team, led by Prof Jonathan Cooper, will be working on modelling techniques, multi-disciplinary design and manufacturing methods for the development of novel aircraft configurations. The PhD students will work closely with Airbus engineers and would also be expected to spend some of the duration of the project working in industry. The PhDs cover a range of aerospace related disciplines including: aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, structural design, composites, morphing devices, nonlinear dynamics, flight mechanics, optimization and uncertainty quantification. Specifically, the topics are:

1. Aerodynamics of highly flexible wings

2. Nonlinear devices for loads control

3. Hybrid testing of large scale aircraft structures and components

4. Nonlinear dynamics of highly flexible wings

5. Robust optimization and uncertainty quantification for minimum weight in aircraft design

6. Sensitivity and uncertainty modelling of the aircraft loads process

7. Multilevel aircraft structural design optimization.

How to apply:

Please make an online application for this project at http://www.bris.ac.uk/pg-howtoapply. Please select Aerospace Engineering on the Programme Choice page and enter details of the studentship when prompted in the Funding and Research Details sections of the form.

Candidate requirements: This is an excellent opportunity to study for a PhD in an industrially relevant environment. Applications are welcomed from UK and EU students who have, or would expect to obtain, a good undergraduate degree (BEng or MEng) in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent.

Funding: Starting stipend (tax free) per annum is the EPSRC stipend of £13,863 plus a top-up of £3.5k

Contacts: Prof J.E. Cooper, Dept of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK.

Email j.e.cooper<στο>bristol.ac.uk

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