South Kensington Campus
Priority consideration will be given to Imperial College staff at risk of redundancy
Fixed Term for: 21 months, commencing June 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter
Applications are invited for the position of Research Associate in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London. The position is funded by the Mathematics Department to develop and make use of new tools for examining Stokes series solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in the complex plane. The specific goals of this position are to use recent advances in path continuation to follow the bifurcation structures for Dean flows and to use similar techniques in other problems
The successful candidate must hold a PhD in Fluid Dynamics (or be about to obtain) or an equivalent level of professional qualifications and experience in a closely related discipline with a demonstrated strong track record of original research, expertise in Extended Stokes Series solution techniques for the Navier-Stokes equations and some familiarity with analytic continuation and higher order Pade approximants.
It will be highly desirable for the successful candidate to possess programming experience in C++, Maple and Matlab and is able to read FORTRAN.
For further details please contact Prof Jonathan Mestel, email: j.mestel@imperial.ac.uk
Our preferred method of application is online via our website http://www.imperial.ac.uk/employment (please select “Job Search” then enter the job title or vacancy reference number NS2012108SA into “Keywords”). Please complete and upload an application form as directed, also providing a CV, list of publications and a description of your research plans over the next 3 years.
Should you have any queries regarding the application process, please contact Mrs Rusudan Svanidze, Tel: +44 (0)207 594 8555; Email: r.svanidze@imperial.ac.uk
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