Organisation/Company Polytechnic University of Bari Research Field Engineering » Mechanical engineering Engineering » Aerospace engineering Engineering » Simulation engineering Physics » Applied physics Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions PhD Positions Application Deadline 15 Nov 2026
- 23:59 (Europe/Rome) Country Italy Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Horizon Europe
- MSCA Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description About HyNOISE
HyNOISE is a Doctoral Network aimed to train doctoral candidates able to face current and future challenges in the prediction and control of direct and indirect noise generated by hydrogen flames. Four specific research objectives will be pursued:

- Unveil the dynamics and sound pressure level generated during unsteady ignition and flashback process
- Investigate the direct broadband sound generated due to the coupling between unsteady flame dynamics and flame-flame interactions, hydrodynamic and thermo
- diffusive instabilities, and turbulence.
- Understand physical mechanisms leading to the onset of thermoacoustic instabilities coupled with different modes at either with a specific focus on high frequencies
- Study the contribution of convective waves to combustion noise and thermoacoustic instabilities. Multiple hydrogen-air archetypes typical of air-breathing hydrogen combustion systems in both single and annular multi-injector configurations will be investigated. In a collaborative partnership between academic and industry partners who are major European gas turbine manufacturers,



HyNOISE bring relevant expertise together and to pursue solutions for hydrogen through integration and combination of unique and advanced theoretical, high-fidelity modelling and experimental expertise. This will lead to the development of new models and tools able to correctly predict hydrogen flame dynamics and its resulting pressure field, and, on this basis, developing control and mitigation methods to overcome current limitations in hydrogen combustion systems and design innovative, quiet, and stable combustion devices. The technologies developed will stimulate the green transition in the power generation and transport sectors, thus contributing to the achievement of the EU's challenging decarbonization goals. About the host organization Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) is one of the largest technical universities in Germany. Its seven faculties cover engineering and natural sciences, economics and business, planning sciences, humanities and the social sciences. The TUB has a professional EC Funding Support Service with long-standing experience in the administration of EC grants (FP 7: 211 contracts, Horizon 2020: 160 contracts and Horizon Europe: 103 contracts so far). The TU Berlin received approx. 138 million € funding (Horizon 2020 & Horizon Europe). The Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Technical Acoustics (ISTA) within the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems performs teaching and research related to fluid dynamics, acoustics, and combustion. The Chair of Fluid Dynamics (Prof. C. Oliver Paschereit, website:



https://www.tu.berlin/fd ) and the Chair of Nonlinear Thermo-Fluid Mechanics (Prof. Alessandro Orchini, website: https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/aorchini/) at the ISTA closely collaborate on research and development in experimental combustion and fluid dynamics and their modelling. Beside fundamental research, development work is being performed for major companies in power generation as well as in transportation. Individual Research Project (IRP) The main objective of the project is to identify the key mechanisms that drive combustion noise in turbulent hydrogen jet flames. The interaction of turbulence and flame intrinsic instabilities is likely to generate hot spots, which, when accelerated at the combustor's exit, cause noise emissions. Therefore, the interaction of turbulence, flame dynamics and noise emissions will be investigated. The goal is to enhance our understanding of the interactions between these physical mechanisms, by employing simultaneously the experimental methods of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), OH
* chemiluminescence and microphone array recordings. Furthermore, the project will sample data to validate simulations in other associated projects. The experimental setup consists of a small-scale unconfined hydrogen jet burner test rig in an anechoic room, which allows for high quality acoustic near
- or far-field measurements not affected by acoustic reflections. The air can be preheated and premixed with hydrogen while being acoustically excited axially or azimuthally. Hydrodynamic stability analysis and data analysis techniques, such as POD or extended Spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (eSPOD), will be conducted on the high-speed PIV and OH
* recordings of

📌 PhD student – HyNOISE Doctoral Candidate (Roma)
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