Research Engineer or Post-doc position in CFD of Hydrogen combustion

CONTACT: Daniel Rodriguez. 
HOST LAB: Numerical Methods in Aerospace Technology (http://numath.dmae.upm.es), 
School of Aeronautics and Space Engineering
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. 
LOCATION: Madrid, Spain.

We are looking for a research engineer or post-doctoral researcher to work on a exciting project in the field 
of Large Eddy Simulation of Hydrogen Combustion. 
The project aims at conducting high-fidelity simulations of turbulent partially premixed H2-air flames to 
study the flame dynamics and combustion instabilities. 
As a second step, the knowledge acquired with the simulations will guide passive and active flow control 
strategies for flame stabilization.


CANDIDATE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- A degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics or related fields. 
- Demonstrated experience in CFD, preferably with Finite Volume solvers (OpenFOAM, Fluent, etc.).
- Fluent English language.

PREFERABLE REQUIREMENTS
- Citizen or Resident of a Schengen country.
- Demonstrated experience in CFD for combustion, in particular: Cantera, Flamelet Generated Manifolds, 
etc.
- A completed MSc or PhD degree in topics related to CFD for combustion.
- Excellent computational skills and interest in CFD programming. Our codes are based on Fortran, but 
previous experience in C/C++ is also useful.
 
WHAT DO WE OFFER?
The contract is offered initially for 1 year starting as soon as possible. Salary: 35-45 K€/year (gross), 
depending on qualifications.

HOW TO APPLY?
Please send cover letter and resume plus relevant technical papers, reports, references, etc. to 
daniel.rodriguez@upm.es quoting the reference HCLES_UPM

WHO ARE WE?:
The Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) is the oldest and largest Spanish technical University, with 
more than 4.000 faculty members, around 48.000 undergraduate students and 6.000 postgraduates in 21 
Schools. UPM  Schools cover most of engineering disciplines, including Aeronautics. The School of 
Aeronautics ETSIAE-UPM is one the best schools of engineering in Spain and the oldest providing an 
aeronautical degree. ETSIAE-UPM was ranked 41st of the world in Shanghai’s ranking for aeronautical 
engineering in 2017. 

The Group Numerical Methods in Aerospace Technology (http://numath.dmae.upm.es), belonging to the 
Dept. of Applied Mathematics at ETSIAE-UPM, offers a young dynamic environment where currently over 10 
PhD students and 20 faculty members perform research in fluids and numerical methods for aerospace 
technology. 

The recently created team working on H2 combustion currently involves 3 Professors, 3 PostDocs and one 
PhD Student.