Student thesis and internship projects
The Physics of Fluids group covers a wide variety of topics. To get some idea on the topics we work on you can look at our Research section, or our research poster, our published articles, or previous master and PhD theses here:
Here is a list of available projects:
Title | Type | Supervisors |
Mysterious Ring in Evaporating Drops: Experiments |
Master |
Experimental |
Pim Dekker, Alvaro Marin |
Steps towards understanding thrombus growth dynamics after endovascular aneurysm repair |
Master |
Experimental |
Hadi Mirgolbabaee |
Mysterious Rings in Evaporating Drops: Numerics |
Master |
Numerical |
Duarte Rocha, Christian Diddens |
Evaporating drops: From coffee stains to inkjet printing |
Master |
Experimental |
Pim Dekker, Detlef Lohse, Marjolein van der Linden |
Wind farms in Stratocumulus-Topped Boundary Layers |
Master |
Numerical |
Davide Selvatici, Richard Stevens |
The impact of atmospheric conditions on wind farm wakes |
Master |
Numerical |
Richard Stevens |
Rotational and Lagrangian statistics of oddly-shaped particles in turbulence |
Master |
Experimental |
Mees Flapper, Sander Huisman |
Flow characterisation in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence facility |
Master |
Experimental |
Edoardo Bellincioni, Sander Huisman |
Melting of Ice Balls in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence 🧊 |
Master/Bachelor |
Experimental |
Edoardo Bellincioni, Sander Huisman |
Melting, erosion, and dissolution dynamics 🧊 |
Master/Bachelor |
Experimental |
Quentin Kriaa, Edoardo Bellincioni, Sander Huisman |
How do fluid motions affect the melting dynamics of a drifting iceberg? 🧊 |
Master/Bachelor |
Experimental |
Edoardo Bellincioni, Quentin Kriaa, Sander Huisman |
Ice sculpting for physicists 🧊 |
Master/Bachelor |
Experimental |
Simen Bootsma, Sander Huisman |
Impact of dynamic wind conditions on wind farms |
Master/Bachelor |
Numerical |
Yang Liu, Richard Stevens |
Colloidal buckling balls |
Master/Bachelor |
Experimental/Numerical |
Raphael Saiseau, Alvaro Marin |
Alcoholic droplets spinning towards chaos while they approach their death |
Master/Bachelor |
Experimental |
Alvaro Marin, Christian Diddens |
Droplet microswimmers |
Master/Bachelor |
Experimental |
Corinna Maaß, Prashanth Ramesh |
Playing ping-pong with liquid droplets |
Master/Bachelor |
Numerical |
Vatsal Sanjay, Vincent Bertin, Pierre Chantelot, Detlef Lohse |
Instability dynamics of flowing liquid films: on plates and fibers |
Master/Bachelor |
Numerical |
Vatsal Sanjay, Wilko Rohlfs Detlef Lohse |
Air layer drainage under an impacting hydrogel droplet |
Master/Bachelor |
Numerical |
Vatsal Sanjay, Udo Sen Detlef Lohse |
Bursting of sandwiched liquid films |
Master/Bachelor |
Numerical |
Vatsal Sanjay, Udo Sen, Detlef Lohse |
Sliding of oil-engulfed droplets |
Master/Bachelor |
Numerical |
Vatsal Sanjay, Udo Sen, Detlef Lohse |
Bursting Bubbles: from champagne to complex liquids |
Master/Bachelor |
Numerical |
Vatsal Sanjay, Alexandros Oratis, Mazi Jalaal, Detlef Lohse |
Drops and bubbles spreading on lubricant infused surfaces |
Master/Bachelor |
Numerical |
Vatsal Sanjay, Alexandros Oratis, Detlef Lohse |
Gravity defying liquids |
Master/Bachelor |
Numerical |
Vatsal Sanjay, Udo Sen, Detlef Lohse |
Convection in Moist Atmospheres |
Master/Bachelor |
Numerical |
Richard Stevens, Chris Howland, Davide Selvatici |
On the dynamics of hydrogen bubbles during water electrolysis |
Master/Bachelor |
Experimental |
Aleksandr Bashkatov, Dominik Krug, Detlef Lohse |
Can rotor tilt improve wind farm power production? |
Bachelor |
Numerical |
Jens Kasper, Richard Stevens |
Effects of Stratocumulus Clouds on the Earth’s Boundary Layer |
Bachelor |
Numerical |
Davide Selvatici, Richard Stevens |
This is just a small sample of the topics that we work on, if you have seen some of our research during our lectures, on YouTube or X, in published papers, or are interested in a certain measurement technique or experimental facility we can also make a custom assignment based on your interests. For information about doing your bachelor thesis, master thesis, or internship project in the Physics of Fluids group, you can contact the involved persons in the table directly, and for more information on thesis projects (in general) or a custom project, please contact Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sander Huisman. For external internships please also contact:
For Biomedical Engineering students and Technical Medicine students please contact
Prof. Dr. Michel Versluis:
Template
Download the thesis proposal template.