Integration of Free Surface CFD for Elite Australian Sport
Engineering, IT, Mathematics and Statistics
PLEASE NOTE
- Due to existing ASC research partnerships with the University of New South Wales and University of Wollongong. Students from UNSW Canberra and UoW are encouraged to apply.
ABOUT THE INDUSTRY PARTNER
The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is the Australian Government agency responsible for supporting and investing in sport at all levels. One part of the remit for the ASC is to drive research and innovation in sport.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
- You will be exposed to Olympic and Paralympic sport in Australia
- You will be working in a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, bio-mechanists and sport scientists
- You will be developing tools that create performance insights to make Australian athletes go faster
RESEARCH TO BE CONDUCTED
The research project is two parts. Part 1 is to develop the free surface code and place within the existing code base, test and validate. There is early prototype code that needs further development, validation and implementation. Part 2 will be working with sports to analyse human, equipment and fluid interaction. You will be helping to create performance insights that effect race outcomes.
SKILLS WISH LIST
If you’re a postgraduate research student and meet some or all the below we want to hear from you. We strongly encourage women, indigenous and disadvantaged candidates to apply:
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (lattice boltzmann knowledge is useful)
- Programming
- Computer Aided Design
- High Performance Computing environments
- Experimental Design
- Dynamics of machines
- Interest in Sport is useful
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
The research and development outcomes from this work will be a developed, validated and implemented free-surface model that will be built into the ASC’s existing CFD code base. The code will be launched on ASC existing HPC platform and available for use by the Australian Sport sector. Further outcomes will be looking at the human, equipment and fluid interaction with athlete specific biomechanics to find performance insights for greater performance outcomes.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
The intern will receive $3,300 per month of the internship, usually in the form of scholarship payments.
It is expected that the intern will primarily undertake this research project during regular business hours and maintain contact with their academic mentor throughout the internship either through face-to-face or phone meetings as appropriate.
The intern and their academic mentor will have the opportunity to negotiate the project’s scope, milestones and timeline during the project planning stage.
Please note, applications are reviewed regularly and this internship may be filled prior to the advertised closing date if a suitable applicant is identified. Early submissions are encouraged.
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