Dear deal.ii users, I am currently looking for a PhD student to work on the development of our open-source polymer electrolyte fuel cell simulation framework based on deal.ii. Our research group has been developing the framework for several years (see www.openfcst.org) and now we would like to extend our micro-scale and macro-scale fuel cell models to account for transient phenomena, such as start-up and degradation, as well as to extend the framework to other electrochemical systems such as batteries. You would be in charge of working in this area in combination with at least four other developers.
The PhD student would have a fellowship for four-years with a minimum stipend of $25,000/yr to cover tuition and living expenses. The starting date would be as early as Janaury 2019, but it could be as late as September 2019. The position is at the Energy Systems Design Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Alberta (One of the top research intensive universities in Canada). Prof. Secanell would be your primary supervisor (see https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user= NjRIwW0AAAAJ&hl=en). Applicants should have earned an M.Sc. degree in either Mathematics or Mechanical/Chemical engineering in the last five years; should : a) have experience in finite elements, deal.ii and programming in C++; b) have strong communication and writing skills; and, c) be ready to work in a team. If you are interested, please email your detailed CV to secan...@ualberta.ca along with your most significant journal/conference publication. For more information about my research laboratory please go to: http://www.mece.ualberta.ca/groups/energysystemsdesign/ Best, Marc *About the Energy Systems Design Laboratory* (http://http://esdlab.mece. ualberta.ca) Founded in 2009, the ESDLab is a research team at the University of Alberta focused on the design of sustainable electrochemical energy systems. The laboratory has both a numerical and an experimental group. The numerical group is responsible for the development of OpenFCST, an open-source fuel cell and electrolyzer simulation framework, and CoolIT, a wet cooling tower analysis software. The experimental group is responsible for the fabrication, characterization and testing of polymer electrolyte fuel cells and electrolyzers to provide validation data to the modeling team. *About the University of Alberta* Founded in 1908, University of Alberta is one of Canada's foremost research-intensive universities with an operating budget of over one billion dollars annually; external research funding is approximately $500 million per year. The University has about 37,000 students at BSc, MSc, and PhD levels. The Faculty of Engineering is among the top 5% in size in North America with over 4,000 undergraduate and 1,500 graduate students. The Department of Mechanical Engineering has more than 750 undergraduate and over 250 graduate students. For more information see the Department of Mechanical Engineering website. *About the City of Edmonton* The Greater Edmonton area has a population of over one million people and offers a diverse array of cultural and sporting activities year round, which has earned Edmonton the nickname of Festival City. Edmonton is an international city, as evident by over seventy cultures from all over the world that were represented in the recent annual Heritage Festival. Edmonton's cost of living is competitive and favourable when compared with other major cities in Canada. Edmonton is only few hours from the Rocky Mountains and Jasper and Banff National Parks, which offer some of the finest skiing, kayaking, cycling, hiking, and camping in the world. The University is located centrally on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River near downtown Edmonton. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------- Marc Secanell, Ph.D., P.Eng. Associate Professor Energy Systems Design Laboratory ( http://www.esdlab.mece.ualberta.ca/ ) Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Alberta 10-358 Donadeo Innovation Centre for Engineering, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 1H9 Phone: (780) 490 8808 (cell) (780) 492-6961 (office) E-mail: secan...@ualberta.ca Confidentiality notice: Emails sent to secan...@ualberta.ca are forwarded to a Google-supported email account. Emails, attachments, documents and calendaring data, stored, received and sent through this University account may be transmitted to and stored on servers outside of the University, Alberta or Canada. The University of Alberta cannot and does not guarantee protection against the possible disclosure of your data including, without limitation, against possible secret disclosures of data to a foreign authority as a consequence of foreign laws. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------- -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
