Student Thesis 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, our published articles, the previous theses here and here, and the poster below:
Here is a list of available projects:
| Title | Type | Supervisors |
|---|
| Effect of water evaporation on multi-component liquids containing particles in printhead nozzle |
Master |
Herman Wijshoff, Pim Dekker, Lijun Thayyil Raju, Detlef Lohse |
| Cavitation from microcrevices in viscoelastic media |
Master |
Dawid Surdeko, Guillaume Lajoinie, Michel Versluis |
| Nonlinear oscillations of a microcrevice bubble |
Master |
Dawid Surdeko, Guillaume Lajoinie, Michel Versluis |
| Vaporization dynamics of superheated microcapsules |
Master |
Saeed Saleem, Guillaume Lajoinie, Michel Versluis |
| Dynamics of multiple super-heated microdroplets |
Master |
Saeed Saleem, Guillaume Lajoinie, Michel Versluis |
| Understanding sheared convection at melting submarine glaciers |
Master |
Chris Howland, Detlef Lohse |
| Dirt particle motion in an ink channel: Altering the dynamics through a multi-component pulse |
Master |
Yogesh Jethani, Tim Segers, Michel Versluis |
| Does blood flow influence the outcome of endovascular abdominal aneurysm repair? |
Master |
Erik Groot Jebbink, Hadi Mirgolbabaee |
| The impact of atmospheric conditions on wind farm wakes |
Master |
Anja Stieren, Richard Stevens |
| The roughness distribution problem for minimised drag |
Master |
Morgan Li, Luuk Blaauw, Sander Huisman |
| Greek alcoholic beverages: turbulent Ouzo effect |
Master/Bachelor |
Yoan Lee, Sander Huisman |
| Melting, erosion and dissolution of objects |
Master/Bachelor |
Pim Waasdorp, Sander Huisman |
| Air layer drainage under an impacting hydrogel droplet |
Master/Bachelor |
Vatsal Sanjay, Udo Sen, Detlef Lohse |
| Bursting of sandwiched liquid films |
Master/Bachelor |
Vatsal Sanjay, Udo Sen, Detlef Lohse |
| Sliding of oil-engulfed droplets |
Master/Bachelor |
Vatsal Sanjay, Udo Sen, Detlef Lohse |
| Spontaneous bursting of multicomponent polymeric droplets |
Master/Bachelor |
Udo Sen, Detlef Lohse |
| Particles in an evaporating multi-component liquid column |
Master/Bachelor |
Lijun Thayyil Raju, Udo Sen, Detlef Lohse |
| The dance of levitated droplets |
Master/Bachelor |
Maaike Rump, Udo Sen, Michel Versluis, Detlef Lohse |
| Gravity defying liquids |
Master/Bachelor |
Vatsal Sanjay, Udo Sen, Michel Versluis, Detlef Lohse |
| Playing ping-pong with liquid drops |
Master/Bachelor |
Vatsal Sanjay, Srinath Lakshman, Pierre Chantelot, Detlef Lohse |
| How do travelling capillary waves entrain air? |
Master/Bachelor |
Vatsal Sanjay, Utkarsh Jain, Devaraj van der Meer, Detlef Lohse |
| Understanding viscous effects in bouncing drops? |
Master/Bachelor |
Vatsal Sanjay, Srinath Lakshman, Pierre Chantelot, Detlef Lohse |
| Numerical simulation of a lava lamp |
Master/Bachelor |
Rui Yang, Haoran Liu, Roberto Verzicco |
| Alcoholic droplets spinning towards chaos while they approach their death |
Master/Bachelor |
Alvaro Marin, Christian Diddens |
| Microfluidic bacterial wellness center |
Master/Bachelor |
Alvaro Marin |
| Graphene snowballs or snowflakes |
Master/Bachelor |
Alvaro Marin |
| In-vitro studies on microsphere (Holmium-166) distribution in liver vasculature using Laser PIV techniques |
Master/Bachelor |
Erik Groot Jebbink, Hadi Mirgolbabaee |
| Effect of Coriolis force on wind farm performance |
Master/Bachelor |
Srinidhi Nagarada Gadde, Richard Stevens |
| Propeller-shaped structures in Saturn's rings |
Master/Bachelor |
Edgar Ortega Roano, Devaraj van der Meer |
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, 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 or master thesis project in the Physics of Fluids group or more information on thesis projects or a custom project, please contact Assis. Prof. Dr. Sander Huisman:
For Biomedical Engineering students and Technical Medicine students please contact
Prof. Dr. Michel Versluis:
