A fully funded 3-year PhD studentship is available in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde. The multidisciplinary research will be supervised by Dr Alexander W. Wray and Professor Stephen K. Wilson from the Continuum Mechanics and Industrial Mathematical (CMIM) research group at the University of Strathclyde (where the project will be based) and Dr Madeleine R. Moore from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Loughborough. This project builds on the supervisors' extensive track records of research on various aspects of droplet evaporation. The student will join a lively and mutually supportive cohort of fellow students and postdocs within the Continuum Mechanics and Industrial Mathematics (CMIM) research group.

The evaporation of sessile droplets is an area of very active multidisciplinary research, with new publications appearing on an almost daily basis and entire international conferences now dedicated to the topic. Sessile droplets appear in numerous contexts in nature, biology, industry and medicine, and are currently the subject of a major international research effort on mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering. The aim of the present project is to use a range of applied mathematical techniques to tackle two exciting new aspects of this scientifically and practically important problem. The first will be to examine the enhanced interaction between confined droplets. The second will be to resolve the limitation that existing models require droplets to be very thin, examining the effects of finite droplet thickness.