Join our leading experts in the field of fluid dynamics and find solutions to challenges in areas like healthcare, climate change, energy, high-tech manufacturing, astronautics, agriculture and more.
Water flowing from the tap, the rush of air around a speeding car, the circulation of blood in our bodies. We may not always realise it, but fluid dynamics is all around us. Moreover, it plays a vital role in finding solutions to major societal and industrial challenges, and often is the critical component in manufacturing and operation. For example, bubbles are now used to reduce drag on marine vessels, enabling ships to consume less energy and lowering their emissions substantially. On a micro- and nanoscale, lithography machines used to make chips for companies like Samsung, Intel and AMD are fundamentally relying on fluid dynamics to operate. And fluid dynamics are essential within healthcare, for example in improving the quality and accuracy of medical imaging or enabling targeted drug delivery in the human body. And these are just a few of the extremely broad range of applications. If you want to deepen your understanding of the behaviour of fluids and how you can control this, the specialisation in Physics of Fluids is right for you.
What is Physics of Fluids?
Fluid dynamics is the science and engineering of moving liquids, gases and particles. If you specialise in Physics of Fluids, you will join the renowned Physics of Fluids group of the University of Twente. They study a wide variety of flow phenomena, both fundamental and applied, combining experimental, theoretical, and numerical methods to solve problems in fluid dynamics. The range of topics goes from nanobubbles to accretion disks, from granular flow to medical flow, and from wind turbines to microfluidic chips.
What makes this field both fascinating and challenging is the variety of complexities you can come across in the behaviour of fluids. Think, for example, of phase transitions that fluids can undergo, and how factors like temperature, speed and the materials involved influence how fluids move. With your expertise, you will be able to contribute to solutions to many challenges in areas like healthcare, climate change, energy, high-tech manufacturing, astronautics, agriculture and food production, and much more.
The University of Twente is renowned for its research in fluid dynamics. Joining the specialisation in Physics of Fluids, you will have the opportunity to learn from and work with top professors and have access to an excellent scientific environment with outstanding lab facilities. Moreover, many fundamental fluid dynamics problems have a direct tie to real-life projects that stem directly from industry, thanks to close ties with industrial partners such as Canon, ASML, MARIN, and Medspray to name a few. Others are strongly related to climate change: icebergs, glaciers, windfarms, ocean currents et cetera.
What will you learn?
As a graduate of this Master's and this specialisation, you have acquired specific, scientific knowledge, skills and values, which you can put to good use in your future job.
Other master’s and specialisations
Is this specialisation not exactly what you are looking for? Maybe one of the other specialisations suits you better. Or find out more about related Master’s:
- Master’s in Mechanical Engineering (specialisation in Energy & Flow)
- Master’s in Applied Mathematics