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Postdoctoral Researcher in aero engine combustors (R2)

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
Spain
Closing date
Nov 30, 2018

Job Details

About BSC

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and is a hosting member of the PRACE European distributed supercomputing infrastructure. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 500 staff from 44 countries.

Context And Mission

Within the Copernicus Climate Climate Change Service (C3S), the Evaluation and Quality Control (EQC) function plays a critical role to ensure that the service meets the needs of a range of users for high-quality data and information, and in proposing the necessary evolution of the service itself, while shaping the research agenda to attend the most important challenges detected.

The Earth Sciences Department of the BSC will be in charge of developing and implementing a system to evaluate the quality of the operational data from the C3S, both observations, seasonal forecasts, and climate projections, as well as the quality of the toolbox and the whole service.

The successful applicant will join the BSC Computational Earth Sciences group to help with the practical implementation of such an evaluation system based on the work done in the previous projects.

Moreover, the applicant will contribute to the implementation of the ongoing strategy to develop the Earth Sciences Department tools, thereby increasing the applicability and international visibility—and hence the impact—of the research coming out of current and future projects.

Key Duties

  • The offered position is a Postdoctoral position for three years to investigate the formation of soot in spray flames.
  • Validation of the Conditional Moment Closure for LES using detailed and reduced chemistry for kerosene.
  • Integration of a Lagrangian atomization model.
  • Coupling with existing soot models.

 

Requirements

  •  Education
    • PhD in Aerospace, Aeronautics or Mechanical Engineering degree with concentration on turbulence and combustion.
  •  Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
    • 0-3 years of PostDoc experience in a similar position.
    • The work conducted in the project will be performed with the parallel multiphysics code Alya, which is an inhouse finite-element solver developed at BSC.
    • The applicant is expected to get familiar with the code running benchmarking cases, and developing physical models that will be integrated in the multiphysics
      platform of Alya.
  •  Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
    • General knowledge on fluid mechanics, LES, numerical methods, soot, combustion chemistry are expected.
    • Computational skills and parallel programming for HPC are not necessary, but will be considered an asset.
    • Some familiarity with the Conditional Moment Closure will be a plus.
  •  Competences
    • Ability to rapidly become productive in new research fields
    • High level of English, both oral and written

 

Conditions

The position will be located at BSC within the CASE Department

We offer a full-time contract, a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible hours, extensive training plan, tickets restaurant, private health insurance, fully support to the relocation procedures

Duration: Temporary

Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona

Starting date: 01/12/2018 or 01/01/2019

Diversity and Equal Opportunity Employment

BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.

Applications Procedure

All applications must include:

  • A motivation letter with a statement of interest, including two contacts for further references - COMPULSORY - Applications without this document will not be considered
  • A full CV including contact details

 

Deadline

The vacancy will remain open until suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.

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