NGCM PhD project titles

Cohort 5 – 2018/19 to 2023/24

Adaptive Market-Making using Reinforcement Learning within a Multi-Agent System
Machine learning of quantum mechanical lattice energies for molecular crystal structure prediction
Simulation of Transition States for Degradation Reactions of High Energy Polymers for Safe Storage
Understanding the Early Universe using Simulations of Lattice Quantum Field Theory
Flexible Sheets in Turbulent Flow
Toward an Identification of the Nature of Dark Matter with Numerical Simulations
Statistical simulations of disordered magnetic materials
Developing Materials Interfaces for Batteries using Large-scale Quantum Chemistry Simulations
Using Molecular Simulations to Understand the Structure-function Relationships of Bacterial Membranes
Applied Value Driven Design Integrated with Aero-Engine Geometry
Computational Modelling of Nonlinear Infrasound Propagation through the Atmosphere
Exploitation of Multi-body Dynamics for Space Mission Design
Modelling and Data-intensive Science Methods to Understand Substorm-driven Energy Deposition into Polar Atmosphere

New Methods for Drug Design based on Large-scale First Principles Quantum Mechanics
Higgs Boson Signals in b-Jet Dynamics at the Large Hadron Collider
Novel High Performance Computing for the Simulation of Transonic/Supersonic Aerofoils with a Wavy Leading Edge
Numerical Simulation of Electromagnetic Stabilisation of Spacecraft
Enhancing Autonomous Guidance and Navigation with Deep Learning AI Technologies
Efficient Overlapping-grid CFD Technique for a Self-propelled Ship
Probing the Co-evolution of Super-massive Black Holes and their Host Galaxies via State-of-the-art, Semi-empirical, Galaxy Evolution Cosmological Models
Simulation of Lubricant Properties for Interaction with Surfaces
Radiative transfer modelling of accretion disk winds in Tidal Disruption Events
Simulation of Biological Systems at Long Time and Distance Scales

Analysis and Modelling of Boundary-Layer Flashback Processes for Hydrogen-Rich Gas-Turbine Combustion
Pushing the Envelope of Planetary Formation and Evolution Simulations
Deep Optimisation
A data-mining approach to predicting surface roughness drag in turbulent flows
Space debris and the evolution of resilient space systems
Next Generation Space Debris Environment Model
Automatic Code Generation for Computational Science
Computational modelling of underwater noise generation by turbulent fluid-structure interactions
The use of channel wings for slow speed UAV flight
Lattice Holographic Cosmology
Computational modelling across ‘omic’ scales of biology
Computational Modelling of Particle Tribocharging in Small, High-Speed Cyclones
Fidelity optimisation in an atomic quantum computer
Extreme non-linear optics in hollow optical fibres
Optimisation of Acoustic Systems for Perceived Sound Quality
Multiscale relativistic simulations
Modelling nutrients dynamics in South-East Asia’s largest lake

Large scale quantum chemistry simulations of organic photovoltaics
Efficient overlapping-grid CFD technique for a self-propelled ship
Couple multi-scale simulation of high Reynolds number airfoil flows
Simulations of magnetic skyrmions
Agent-based modelling of high frequency traders
Integrating automated vehicles into the transport network
Multi-scale modelling of composite riser systems
Simulation of biological systems at long length and distance scales
Dynamics simulations for quantum feedback to steer a single particle harmonic oscillator in non-classical states
Modelling jet dynamics and the Large Hadron Collider
Mathematical tools for analysis of genome function, linkage and disequilibrium structure and disease gene prediction
Dispersion of small inertial particles in characteristic atmospheric boundary layer flows
Biomechanical optimisation of lower limb prosthetic socket design

Multimode simulation of high-power fibre lasers and amplifiers
Modelling of neutron star interactions in x-ray binary systems
Challenging topological prejudice – automated airframe layout design
Design of unmanned air vehicles
Uncertainty quantification and propagation through complex chains of computational models
Computational methods for the modelling and inversion of non-linear systems and its application to beam hardening correction in x-ray computed tomography reconstruction
Towards exascale computing in particle physics
Variability in high pressure blade trailing edge geometry and its impact on stage capacity and blade temperature
Multiscale models of magnetic materials at elevated temperatures