PhD in Engineering Sciences, specializing in Fluid Dynamics

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Area

Engineering and Technology

Sub-Discipline

Civil Engineering

Universidad de Chile

University of Chile

  • City: Santiago,
  • Commune: Santiago,
  • Region: Metropolitan Region
goals

This program aims to train highly qualified specialists in fluid dynamics, capable of conducting research and development in both theoretical and applied aspects of engineering problems. It is expected that a significant number of the doctoral graduates will join academia, strengthening the faculty of national and international universities.
It is also a key objective that its graduates secure key positions in public and private companies and institutions across the country, thereby contributing to technology transfer between the university and the external environment, enhancing the national culture of research and development in productive enterprises, consulting engineering, and the services and state institutions responsible for managing the use and protection of the country's natural resources. Furthermore, due to its originality and innovative nature, this Doctoral Program is expected to attract students from across the region and Latin America.

Applicant Profile

Applicants must hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a discipline related to the program's subject area and demonstrate satisfactory prior training for its purposes and requirements. Related fields include some of the following areas:
Engineering Sciences
Physics
Earth Sciences
Applied mathematics

Graduate profile

Its graduates will possess the necessary skills to pose, formulate, solve, and validate highly complex problems, drawing on their comprehensive training in basic sciences and engineering sciences relevant to fluid dynamics or transport phenomena of various types, through cutting-edge methodologies and techniques. They will be able to conceive, implement, promote, and lead actions for the solution of problems within their field, both nationally and internationally.

Lines of investigation

1. Turbulence
2.- Dynamics of the Atmosphere
3.- Micro and Nanofluidics
4.- Environmental Hydrodynamics
5. Multiphase Flows and Suspension Rheology
6. Combustion and Heat Transport
7.- Control and Reverse Problems
8. Computational Fluid Mechanics
9. Mathematical Mechanics