PhD student position in ship hydroacoustics

Underwater noise from ships is of growing environmental concern. There is an increasing demand, both from authorities and ship owners, to regulate and reduce these emissions into the ocean. However, the tools to support the development of less noisy vessels are very blunt. We're offering a PhD position that will give you the opportunity to enable improved design choices to achieve quieter oceans and sustainable transport by supporting the industry in improving their tools.

Information about the research project
The position is part of a collaborative research project involving both academia, institutes and industry. The research involves analysing a vessel with respect to underwater radiated noise (URN) from a cavitating propeller, both by CFD, experiments, and measurements on a real vessel in operation. The project is one of several at the department that relates to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

Your role in the project will be to develop the tools to analyse the noise emissions from CFD. In addition to the numerical modelling work, this will involve cooperating with experts on measurements and hydroacoustics to synthesise the different datasets and promote the understanding of noise generating mechanisms. The PhD project is co-funded by Kongsberg and the research outcome will be implemented in their commercial design work.

This position is in the research group of Professor Rickard Bensow and will be part of the Kongsberg University Technology Centre hosted at Chalmers. You will work closely with other PhD students and PostDocs in the research group, working with cavitation and noise in related areas, as well as with the research engineers at Kongsberg. You will have close contact with the hydroacoustic teams at SSPA, IVL, FOI and KTH. Apart from the supervision by Professor Bensow, you will be co-supervised by Prof Sigray from KTH and a Kongsberg researcher. We have access to computational resources both at Chalmers and via national resources. The group is placed in the Division of Marine Technology, well recognised internationally for it's research in marine structures and hydrodynamics. 

The division works closely with the shipping industry in Sweden. We host the Kongsberg University Technology Centre in Computational Hydrodynamics since 2002 (previously within the Rolls-Royce group) where both long-term strategic research as well as industrial method development are performed in close collaboration with the company. Utilisation and industrial impact of the research are key to this successful cooperation.

Major responsibilities
Your main responsibility as PhD student is to pursue your own doctoral studies, in collaboration with colleagues at Chalmers as well as with external collaborators in academia and industry. This includes developing scientific concepts and communicating research results verbally and in writing. In addition to research project activities, you will also take courses on the advanced level adequate for the project and your personal development as a researcher.

The position also includes teaching or other departmental duties corresponding to 10-20 % of working hours. The employment time is limited up to 4.5-5 years depending on the amount of teaching and departmental work during your doctoral project.

Contract terms
Full-time temporary employment. The employment time is limited up to 4.5-5 years depending on the amount of teaching and departmental work during your doctoral project.

Qualifications
To qualify for this position, you need to have a Master of Science degree corresponding to at least 240 higher education credits in Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Engineering Physics or similar, with emphasis on fluid mechanics and CFD. The position requires excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

You are expected to take initiatives, work independently when needed and to take responsibility for your work. Further, the project interacts closely with adjacent disciplines and industrial partners, thus you need to have good collaborative skills. Finally, you need to be able to disseminate results and knowledge within existing and new networks. This includes academia, industry and society at large.

If Swedish is not your native language, Chalmers offers Swedish courses.

Learn more and apply on Chalmers website: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=9916&rmlang=UK

Application deadline: 7 December, 2021

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