Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/P020666/1
Scaling and design of laboratory experiments to understand environmental flows
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor EW Llewellin, Durham University, Earth Sciences
- Grant held at:
- Durham University, Earth Sciences
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Atmospheric
- ENRIs:
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Geohazards
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Volcanic Processes
- Heat & Mass Transfer
- Research approaches
- Abstract:
- The central goal of this ATSC is to train environmental scientists to design, execute, analyse, and interpret scaled laboratory experiments to inform quantitative understanding of environmental flows. Fluid and granular flows, such as rivers, avalanches, lava/magma flows, pyroclastic density currents, glaciers, aquifers, ocean currents, and landslides, are crucial agents in the environment. Modelling their environmental and societal impact depends upon quantitative understanding of their fluid dynamic behaviour. Laboratory experiments are an essential tool for identifying, isolating, and quantifying that behaviour; however, it is crucial that they are rigorously scaled to the natural system, and that their capacity to reproduce features of the full-scale system is robustly established. This proposed ATSC will guide participating students through the entire process of experimental modelling of environmental flows. There will be a particular emphasis on appropriate scaling of experiments, to ensure that results and interpretations can be robustly applied to full-scale natural phenomena, and on rigorous quantification of uncertainties. The course will adopt an experiential learning model, in which students will engage in a series of hands-on exercises, including a centre-piece practical case study of multiphase magma flow in a volcanic conduit, using analogue fluids. Additional exercises will analyse cutting-edge field measurements from full-scale snow avalanches and submarine turbidity currents to critically assess the effectiveness of previous laboratory models of those phenomena. Application to other environment flows will be considered throughout the course.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/P020666/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Advanced Training
This training grant award has a total value of £40,249
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Other Costs |
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| £40,249 |
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