PhD Student High‑fidelity Hypersonic Flows (R1) Job Reference: 179_26_CASE_LSCFD_R1

Starting Date: ASAP

Closing Date: Friday, 31 July 2026

About BSC The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC‑CNS) is the leading supercomputing centre in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large‑scale investments and HPC provision in Europe.

The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D; into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

Context and Mission There is a need to increase the capabilities of current Computational Fluid Dynamics tools for engineering design by re‑engineering them for extreme‑scale parallel computing platforms. The backbone of the Large‑scale Computational Fluid Dynamics (LS/CFD) team is centred on the fact that today, the capabilities of leading‑edge emerging HPC architectures are not fully exploited by industrial simulation tools.

Current state‑of‑the‑art industrial solvers do not take sufficient advantage of the immense capabilities of new hardware architectures, such as streaming processors or many‑core platforms. A combined research effort focusing on novel numerical methods, more accurate physical models, algorithms and HPC application is the only way to make it possible to develop and advance simulation tools to meet the needs of the European industry. The LS/CFD team will focus on the development of numerical tools, turbulence models, multi‑physics algorithms, data‑driven methodologies and large‑scale industrial simulations.

Key Duties





Participate in GPU activities carried out by BSC in the LS/CFD team

Interact with collaborators of the LS/CFD team to conduct collaborative research

Research GPU porting of hypersonic CFD codes

Contribute to scientific paper publications

Research ML integration for CFD codes for high‑speed conditions

Lead the high‑speed research activities in the LS/CFD group

Requirements

Education

Master in aeronautical engineering (or equivalent)

Degree in aeronautical engineering (or equivalent)

Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience

Experience developing in‑house CFD codes.

Experience using large‑scale HPC facilities.

Experience in GPU accelerators.

Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous.

Adequate physical and mathematical knowledge in the aeronautical field.

Previous experience in European research projects and industrial projects will be considered.

Competences

Ability to work in a team and in a multi‑cultural environment.

Conditions The position will be located at BSC within the CASE Department.

We offer a full‑time contract (35h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state‑of‑the‑art infrastructure, adaptable working hours, extensive training plan.

Restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures.

Duration: pre‑doctoral contract.

Holidays: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement.

Salary: competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona.

Equal Opportunity BSC‑CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.

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