{"id":2139,"date":"2012-01-24T00:56:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T00:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2012-01-31T21:16:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T21:16:03","slug":"phd-scholarship-in-inverse-design-of-profile-extrusion-dies-aachen-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=2139","title":{"rendered":"PhD scholarship in Inverse Design of Profile Extrusion Dies (Aachen- Germany)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Profile extrusion is a manufacturing process for continuous plastic profiles, such as pipes or window seals.\u00a0It is the task of the extrusion die to reshape the molten raw material into the desired profile. The extrusion\u00a0die plays a central role when it comes to product quality but nevertheless, at the current state of the art,\u00a0the extrusion die has to be designed based on experience and running-in experiments. Up to 15 reworking\u00a0steps may be necessary until an extrusion die suitable for high-quality products is obtained. Numerical\u00a0shape optimization is a very promising approach to increasingly automate the design process of extrusion\u00a0dies. Basis of this new design concept will be an in-house shape optimization framework, including a\u00a0flow solver employing a stabilized finite element formulation of incompressible flow. The inverse design of\u00a0extrusion dies, i.e, the definition of an optimal design of the extrusion die only based on the product shape,\u00a0is the main goal of the project. Important steps towards this aim are the accurate modeling of the behavior of\u00a0the plastics melt (particularly the shear-thinning and viscoelastic properties) as well as the development of\u00a0new objective functions. The position will be embedded into the cluster of excellence \u201cIntegrative Production\u00a0Technology for High-Wage Countries\u201d.<\/p>\n

Your profile:<\/span> Requirement for this position is a diploma or master\u2019s degree in CES, engineering, applied\u00a0mathematics, physics or a similar subject with superior academic record. Practical programming experience\u00a0in Fortran or C as well as with parallelization (MPI or OpenMP) are an advantage. Familiarity with\u00a0UNIX operating system would be ideal. We expect you to contribute to general tasks at the institute, such\u00a0as teaching and advising master or project theses.<\/p>\n

Our offer:<\/span> The candidate will be employed as a regular employee and must meet required personal qualifications.\u00a0This is a full-time position and the salary is according to TV-L E 13. Initially, it is a fixed-term\u00a0position for one year, but is expected to be extended for up to five years. Applications are being reviewed\u00a0now.<\/p>\n

RWTH Aachen University has been rewarded with the Total-E-Quality-Award\u201c for its efforts with respect to gender\u00a0equality. In cases of equal qualification, aptitude and expertise of the applicants, female applicants will be given\u00a0preferential treatment for those salary groups and careers in which females are underrepresented, unless there are\u00a0preponderant reasons to give preference tho another applicant. RWTH Aachen University has been awarded with\u00a0the title \u201cdisability-friendly\u201c (Pr \u00a8adikat behindertenfreundlich\u201c) for its efforts with respect to training and employment of\u00a0disabled people. Applications from disabled persons with appropriate qualifications are explicitly welcome.<\/p>\n

For details:<\/span>\u00a0Doctoral Position XC plastics – Aachen- Germany<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Profile extrusion is a manufacturing process for continuous plastic profiles, such as pipes or window seals.\u00a0It is the task of the extrusion die to reshape the molten raw material into the desired profile. The extrusion\u00a0die plays a central role when it comes to product quality but nevertheless, at the current state of the art,\u00a0the extrusion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship-bourses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}