Doctoral Researcher in Numerical Modeling of Sea Ice
About this role
Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 120 nationalities, 14 000 students, 400 professors and close to 5000 other faculty and staff working on our dynamic campus in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community's diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.
School of Engineering is an international unit with nearly 70 talented professors and 3400 full-time students. Currently, the Department of Mechanical Engineering has 30 professors together with lecturers, post-doctoral researchers, doctoral students, and technical staff. In total, the number of personnel is about 300.
We are now looking for a
Doctoral Researcher in Numerical Modeling of Sea Ice
We are seeking a highly motivated Doctoral Researcher to join our ice mechanics research group at Aalto University to work on collaborative project between Aalto University and Finnish Meteorological Institute focusing on ice pile-ups and related risks to coastal structures and erosion. The ice rubble piles form as sea ice is pushed by wind towards the coastlines, fractures and fractured ice piles up.
Your role and goals
The successful candidate will conduct doctoral research on the numerical modelling of sea ice accumulations against coastline and coastal structures such as breakwaters by using computational tools developed in our research group. These tools are based on discrete element method and they have bee validated against experimental data. You will start your work by further developing the code to include time dependent cohesive bonding between the ice blocks. Then you will use the code to model ice pile-up. The wo