Loughborough University is a top-ten rated university in England for research intensity (REF2014) and an outstanding 66% of the work of Loughborough’s academic staff who were eligible to be submitted to the REF was judged as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, compared to a national average figure of 43%. In choosing Loughborough for your research, you’ll work alongside academics who are leaders in their field. You will benefit from comprehensive support and guidance from our Doctoral College, including tailored careers advice, to help you succeed in your research and future career. You will work in the Mathematical Modelling research group where Dr Sibley and many others work on a variety of related projects in renewable energy and wetting properties of surfaces, funded from a range of sources and with links to industrial partners. Collaboration with others, especially from other disciplines, will be encouraged. Situations arise throughout nature and industry where fluid droplets interact with surfaces, from rain on leaves, waterproof clothing or solar panels to inkjet printing. Manufactured surfaces can be designed to have certain wetting properties, effectively how much the surfaces like to attract or repel fluids, through either the actual material or the texturing of the surface. To design these features requires an understanding of the surface and its interactions with the fluids on them at very small scales, but they ultimately can determine or control the behaviour of whole droplets or systems of droplets at large, macroscopic, scales. This project will develop both the theory of the mathematical models used to understand the motion of droplets and simulation techniques to explore the resulting behaviours.