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Droplet Redistribution by Rolling Wheels

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Location
Villeurbanne
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
July 14, 2026

Job Description

Topic description

Key information

  • Start date: October – January
  • Duration: 4 years
  • Funding: industrial sponsor Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl, UK)
  • Research area: Experimental fluid mechanics, multiphase flows, soft matter physics
  • Supervision: Prof. Julien Landel (LMFA, UCBL), Prof. Jean-Philippe Matas (LMFA, UCBL), Prof. Stuart Dalziel (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

    • Project description

    This PhD project aims to uncover the fundamental mechanisms governing the transfer and redistribution of liquid droplets by rolling wheels on contaminated surfaces.

    The project will investigate how droplets deform, spread, break up, and are redistributed through a combination of:

  • capillary effects,
  • inertial forces,
  • centrifugal effects,
  • interfacial instabilities.

    • The research will combine high-spee...

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