PhD student field of numerical simulation of plasma- methane decomposition

Job Overview

Materials science and technology are our passion. With our cutting-edge research, Emp's around 1,100 employees make essential contributions to the well‑being of society for a future worth living. Empa is a research institution of the ETH Domain.

• Setup of Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD environment and simulations including:
• Computation of the microwave field, Coupling of the microwave field with the plasma
• Computation of elementary ionization, recombination and diffusion processes in the plasma resulting in the ionization of the initial gas
• The decomposition of CH4, including detailed reaction sequence and chemical kinetics in a multiphase environment and flow field interactions
• Tuning of the CFD models with experimental results
• Artificial Neural Network training and development
• Scientific publications in journals and at conferences
• Supervision of students

• University Master's degree in process engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering or materials science with some (CFD) experience.
• Good technical knowledge and/or high interest in scientific work with CFD.
• Interest in working in interdisciplinary teams.
• Good knowledge of the German and English language.