Scope:
To calculate the unsteady aerodynamic flow over wind or lifting surface, boundary element method can be used e.g. the panel method. However, the panel method alone cannot simulate the flow separation and also doesn’t account for the viscous effect which is very important in unsteady load calculation. Therefore, the proposed master thesis will focus on the development of a hybrid boundary element method which can be fast compared to CFD and can simulate the viscous effect using the boundary layer theory and the shear layer separation will be modeled using the 3D vortex particle method.
This kind of tool has great application in fast load calculation for aeroelastic analysis in power turbine blade cascade, wind turbine or rotor craft load estimation. The master student will spend time to read the state of the art and formulate an algorithm to model the 3D flow field around a wing and 3D  blade cascade. For the numerical implementation, either MATLAB or Fortran or C/ C++ or Python can be used depending upon the choice.
Required qualification: Masters degree/ Bachelors Student in the field of Mechanical/ Aerospace/ Computational engineering/ Physics/ Naval Engineering or similar. Good understanding of fluid mechanics/ aerodynamics, good analytical and mathematical skills, good programming skills in any of the above languages will be advantageous. Working knowledge of English language will be preferred.

Time duration: 6 months
Date of start: Negotiable
Qualification: Masters/ Bachelors Student
Place: Institute of Thermodynamics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Supervisor: Dr. Chandra Shekhar Prasad E-mail cprasad@it.cas.cz (for technical queries)
Contact: Dr. Patrik Zima, Phone +420 266 053 392 E-mail zimap@it.cas.cz