Fluid Dynamics and Convection Stability Physicist (PhD)

Posted 25 Sep 2026

$80–110/hr

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Platform

Mercor

Work

Remote · Contract · 10 hrs/wk

Eligibility

Open to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

Field

Science & research

Skills

Convection StabilityRayleigh-Bénard ConvectionRayleigh-Darcy ConvectionFluid DynamicsBoussinesq ApproximationLinear Stability AnalysisNormal-Mode Perturbation ExpansionMarginal Stability AnalysisCritical Rayleigh Number DeterminationSpectral Eigenvalue MethodsDarcy's LawPorous-Medium FlowBuoyancy-Driven FlowBuoyancy-Driven TransportMixed Mechanical and Thermal Boundary ConditionsFixed-Flux Thermal ForcingOpen Boundary ConditionsLaTeXPythonJupyterVS CodeEnglish (B2+)

About this role

About the work CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it…

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