Focus Areas
Mixing - Mixing processes are critical in many applications including chemical and biological reactors, indoor ventilation and atmospheric dispersion.
Ventilation - Ventilation flows are very important in many circumstances including clean room facilities, decontamination facilities, train stations and building fires.
Atmospheric Dispersion - The dispersion of toxic materials from chemical plants or chemical warfare agents in the atmosphere or oceans is of great concern to companies, citizens and governments.
Multi-phase Separation - The requirement to separate liquids, solids or gases from one another is very common in many industries such as oil, gas and petrochemicals.
Purging - Purging describes any process designed to replace one gas or liquid contained within a vessel, with another gas or liquid. Although purging is performed on a daily basis in many different applications, the actual process and methods of optimization are in general, poorly understood.
Fluidization - Many process industries rely on fluidized vessels to enhance the contact between gases, liquids and solids. Critical issues often include the quality and uniformity of the fluidization environment, gas/liquid hold-up and free-board behaviour.
Non-Newtonian Flows - Numerous biological and chemical process flows involve non-Newtonian fluids, for example shear thinning and shear thickening fluids.
Flow Induced Noise - Flow induced noise is a very common problem in many industrial applications including pipeline systems and aeronautical engineering.
Flow Conditioning - Screens, vanes, perforated plates and headers are just a few of the different elements that are commonly used to control the velocity distribution in single or multi-phase flows.
Jet and Spray Nozzle Design - Spray nozzles are designed to produce rapid dispersion of a liquid, gas or liquid/gas stream, into the surrounding environment.
Combustion - Combustion, the reaction of a fuel with an oxidant, provides heat and energy in a wide variety of industrial and commercial processes.