Postdoc: An experimental study on the se6ling and clustering of droplets in realis9c turbulent environments

This postdoc position consists on an experimental study of highly unsteady and inhomogeneous particle-laden flows, a problem at the heart of virus transmission and climate change predictions. For such aim, we propose a series of innovative experiments on the gravitational settling and spatial segregation of particles carried by unsteady and inhomogeneous turbulent flows. The project will provide a description of the pulsed jet (on single and multi-phase conditions), including realistic situations such as laryngeal-like jets and time-dependent particle inertia caused by phase transitions. The proposed experiments start from canonical conditions but progressively increase in complexity in a controlled way.