Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and its multi-fluid variant Computational Multi-Fluid Dynamics (CMFD) are playing a major role in the design of both novel and conventional energy and process engineering systems. The rapid advances in the technology in all sectors require naturally new computational methods, more subtle grid generation techniques, very advanced models for the pertaining physics, and above all, more robust and faster algorithms and codes (e.g. GPUs instead of CPUs; using massive MPI parallelization).
In this talk a review picture of the state of the art in the subject will be portrayed. New discretization methods and grid generation techniques will be introduced, advanced multiphase models will be presented and debated.
Dr Djamel Lakehal is the President of ASCOMP (Switzerland and USA) and adjunct lecturer of fluid mechanics at ETH Zurich. His research activities on fluid mechanics, multiphase flow and heat transfer are conducted at the MIT (Nuclear Eng. Dept.), where he is a senior research fellow. Dr Lakehal authored about 60 archived journal papers in this area.