Yuchen Liu, a SEMS PhD student under Dr Chinnapat Panwisawa since September 2023, has been accepted to attend the Henry Royce PhD Student Research Sandpit at the University of Manchester.

Henry Royce Institute (Royce) hosted a PhD Student Research Sandpit at its flagship Royce Hub building at the University of Manchester on 22nd and 23rd November 2023. The aim of this event was to connect with peers working in materials science disciplines and experience a "sandpit" format often used by research councils and funders to stimulate new lines of thinking for tackling complex research challenges.

Yuchen and his SlideQ Technologies team won a Henry Royce Research Sandpit at the event. SlideQ Technologies team had pitched to use OpenFOAM (open source computational fluid dynamics software) simulation to build a digital twin platform for spraying process during "Ultrasonic Spray Coating" to include physical effects of droplet formation, movement and drying.

Their pitch stated "integrating digital twin with OpenFOAM improves comprehensiveness and gives real-time feedback to support engineering decision and system optimisation."

Read more on the Royce website.

Updated by: Chinnapat Panwisawas