Two-year postdoctoral position in ERC-Synergy project - (contrato postdoctoral): Turbulent flow and transport in karst conduits

You are a scientist with interest and or experience in fluid mechanics and are looking for an exciting project in which you will tackle earth science issues with a high scientific and societal impact. You are motivated by understanding water flow and solute transport in caves and conduits characterized by complex geometries. You are capable of analyzing data and constructing models to represent the key features of conduit scale processes. you will be working on characterizing and quantifying conduit scale water flow and solute transport to achieve a new fundamental understanding of these processes. The tasks include laboratory experiments of flow and solute transport in 3D-printed synthetic karst conduits obtained from real cave data, analysis of experimental and numerical data. The experimental methods involve laser imaging and PIV to assess local flow and transport properties. Based on these data and data from detailed CFD simulation, the aim is to identify the conduit scale flow and transport laws under complex geometries at different Reynolds numbers. You will strongly interact with the project partners at IFPEN in Paris for the laboratory experiments, and at University of Neuchatel for cave characterization.