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PhD student Camille Bilger receives Airbus Group UK TechMaster Award

PhD student Camille Bilger receives Airbus Group UK TechMaster Award

Camille Bilger

Camille Bilger, a PhD student in the Department of Engineering's Energy and Fluids group, has received the Airbus Group UK TechMaster Award.

The award has helped me financially but it has also enabled me to network within the aerospace industry, and given me opportunities to connect with senior management and employees across the Airbus group.

Camille Bilger

Camille’s research focus is primarily on simulating computationally jet fuel injection inside engines’ combustion chamber and its application in the case of Rolls-Royce plc. civil aircraft engines. In particular, her group is interested in simulating the liquid fuel-film atomisation in fuel injector devices. Improving combustion is critical for the next generation of aircraft in order to lower the fuel consumption and reduce pollutant emissions. A detailed understanding of the atomisation process in two-phase flows is still a missing link in effectively controlling the process of fuel atomisation as well as fuel ignitability and combustion under all possible operating conditions.

The complexity of the physics involved has curbed the research growth in the field. Her research goal is to continue gaining valuable knowledge and experience within the fields of hydrodynamics, fluid instabilities and turbulence with the ultimate goal of addressing significant scientific issues of notable challenge. 

Camille grew up in Strasbourg, France, and moved to St Andrews, UK, in 2008 to study Astrophysics at the University of St Andrews. After graduating from St Andrews in June 2012 with a M.Sci. degree in Astrophysics (First Class Honours; SELEX Galileo 2012 prize for the best Astrophysics Masters thesis), she moved to Cambridge in September 2012 to undertake a comprehensive program of graduate teaching and research (M.Phil. in Energy Technologies, Distinction), for which she was funded by an Airbus Group TechMasters Award scholarship. In this broad program, students have the opportunity to learn and integrate multiple engineering disciplines. The curriculum emphasised renewable energies, combustion, computational fluid dynamics, turbulence and management in technology.

The Airbus Group UK TechMasters Awards consist of six scholarships of £5,000 each per year, dedicated to supporting UK students reading for a Masters degree in aerospace related areas. In addition, the programme provides opportunities to connect with senior management and employees across the group, and gain in-depth understanding of the group and the wider aerospace industry.

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