Activities and events

Annual Osborne Reynolds Day Competition

The Osborne Reynolds Oral and Poster PhD competitions offer prestigious awards that celebrate the quality of students and graduates who have been pursuing doctoral‐level research across the broad domain of fluid mechanics. This includes turbulence, multi‐phase, stratified and free‐surface flows, convective transport processes, combustion and acoustics.

Entries are welcome from schools of engineering, physics, mathematics or environmental sciences. PhD students or recent graduates from all UK universities are eligible to enter, whether or not their host university is a member of ERCOFTAC.

Following a two stage blind review, for the Oral Competition, up to seven finalists present their research. The winner then receives the Osborne Reynolds Prize of £500 with the second‐ and third‐placed finalists receiving £200 and £100 respectively. Three finalists then get a chance to be selected as the UK entrants for the Europe‐wide ERCOFTAC da Vinci Award held every year.

The Poster Competition allows up to 25 finalists to showcase their research. Those presenting the best three posters will each receive £100. All poster finalists will be required to do a one-minute poster pitch (maximum of two slides, to be emailed to the event organizers well in advance) in addition to presenting their posters in person.

Find out more details for the next Osborne Reynolds Day competition and how to apply, on our Events page.

Annual CPD courses in computational fluid dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is required in many industrial applications, including external and internal aerodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, aeroacoustics, etc. It is therefore, if not more, at least as important as experimental fluid dynamics. The many complex practical computational fluid mechanics problems require high accuracy of prediction, taking into account various physical effects and coupling different models.

With this vision we run CPD courses to address some of the modern techniques in CFD and their applications to the solution of practical, real-world applications, with the aim to resolve an inevitable trade-off between the accuracy of prediction and effectiveness of mathematical modelling.

The course is delivered by the academic staff of the University of Manchester  in collaboration with the researchers from Électricité de France and the Science & Technology Facilities Council Daresbury Laboratory. Apart from the lectures on fundamental and advanced topics, the CPD course has a number of hands-on training sessions using the open-source CFD solver Code_Saturne, which is developed by EDF R&D for solving the Navier-Stokes equations.

The following link gives details of a two-day summer school in Manchester for June 2019.