Organisation/Company Polytechnic University of Bari Research Field Engineering » Aerospace engineering Engineering » Mechanical engineering Engineering » Simulation engineering Physics » Applied physics Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions PhD Positions Application Deadline 31 Dec 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: ) and the Laboratory for Flow Instability and Dynamics (Dr. Thomas Kaiser ) at the ISTA 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)

Title: Identification and modelling of hydrodynamic instabilities driving combustion noise in turbulent hydrogen flames

The main objective of the project is to identify the key mechanisms that drive combustion noise in turbulent hydrogen jet flames and to develop a physics-based, low-order modelling framework that can be used to optimize combustion systems. The focus will be on direct combustion noise of circular turbulent non-swirling jet flames caused by the dynamic interaction of turbulent structures of the underlying flow field and the flame front.

To construct a comprehensive database, we execute compressible reacting Large Eddy Simulations, mirroring TUB's experiments. Using extended Spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, we derive low-order dynamical models revealing dominant flow structures and their interaction with flame dynamics and noise. These insights inform a physics-grounded model of said structures, employing the linearized Navier-Stokes equations u

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