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Committee on Industrial Flows and Energy Exchange
Scope
Knowledge of fluid behaviour and thermal transfer
is critical to ensure economical and safe power generation. The
most striking and immediate example is the need for safe operation
of nuclear reactors, especially in regard to an adequate supply
of core coolant. From computational fluid dynamics, to cooling-towers
engineering or to advanced nuclear reactors thermohydraulics, the
effort of this Committee is to provide a forum for exchange of information
among the researchers and professionals, including engineers from
industry, who have as a common interest the study of flow phenomena
encountered in the production and use of energy.
Intersociety Co-operation: It is
the aim of the Committee to foster co-operation with other groups
and organisations striving for similar goals. A recently established,
very active association of researchers and professionals from industry
engaged in Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics is ERCOFTAC
(European Research Community on Flow Turbulence and Combustion).
The Committee has established a working association with ERCOFTAC,
with joint workshops and mutually sponsored symposia.
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Research
Agenda
Numerical Flow Modelling: The
explosion in computational capabilities and the availability of
computational fluid dynamics software is rapidly changing the approach
to hydraulic modelling. Advances in numerical techniques must be
accompanied by further insight into physical behaviour and by experimental
investigation. A special interest for the Committee is the refined
modelling of turbulent flows. In this field a Committee is organising,
on an annual basis, workshops (in association with ERCOFTAC) with
benchmark exercises on well documented test cases.
Cooling Towers: Research subjects
for the Committee working group on cooling towers include thermohydraulic
performance, environmental impact, civil engineering of cooling
towers, the performance of spray cooling ponds and water conservation.
The Committee organises biennial symposia.
Advanced Nuclear Reactors: A third
working group focuses its research exchanges on the thermohydraulics
of advanced nuclear reactors. Of particular interest are investigations
of passive safety systems, where continued cooling of critical
reactor components such as core and containment under accident
conditions is assured through passive devices. These systems do
not require operator action, but rather rely on physical principles,
such as gravity, natural coolant circulation and enhanced heat
transfer. The working group regularly organises workshops and benchmark
exercises focusing on flows with heat transfer.
Wind engineering: This recently
established working group focuses on turbulent flows around structures.
The purpose of the working group is, first, to be able to compare
various turbulence approaches for this difficult problem, ranging
from one-point closure models (using Boussinesq assumption as the
k-epsilon one or full Reynolds stress modelling) to Large Eddy
Simulation. Then, the definition of wind loads on structure and
problem of fluid-structure interaction will be addressed. A direct
industrial application is the fluid-structure interaction between
wind flow and cooling towers, but wind action can also be seen
as a source of energy.
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Committee Officers
Leadership Team
Chair
Vice Chair
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Dr.Jacopo Buongiorno.
INEEL - Nuclear Engineering Department
P.O. Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-3860, U.S.A.
Phone: 1-208-526-3440
Fax: 1-208-526-2930
E-mail: buonj@inel.gov |
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Publications
- 8th International Symposium on Flow Modeling
and Turbulence Measurement (FMTM) 2001, December 4-6, 2001, Tokyo,
Japan Conference Report
- 3rd Int. Symposium on Refined Flow Modelling,
Tokyo, Japan, July 26-28, 1988. From Universal Academy Press,
C.P.O. Box 235, Tokyo 100-91, Japan
- 4th Int. Symposium on Refined Flow Modelling
and Turbulence Measurements, Wuhan, China, September 20-23, 1990.
Prof. L. Zaichao, Wuhan University of Hydraulic & Electric
Engineering, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China.
- 5th ERCOFTAC/IAHR Workshop on Refined Flow Modelling,
Chatou (Paris) France, April 25-26, 1996. From Mr. D. Laurence,
EDF-DER LNH, 6, quai Watier, 78400 Chatou, France,
- 6th Int. Symposium on Flow Modelling and Turbulence
Measurements, Florida, USA, September 8-10, 1996. From Chiang
Shih, Florida A&M University/The Florida State University,
P.O. Box 2175, Tallahassee, Florida 32316-2175, USA
- Special Issue of the Journal of Hydraulic Research
on Fluid Phenomena on Energy Exchanges . Volume 35 - 1997- Issue
6. IAHR Secretariat
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Reports
- 2007 Committee Report for IAHR Venice Council Meeting
- 11th Meeting on Advanced Nuclear Reactor Thermohydraulics
July 5-9, 2004, Obninsk, Russia
- 2003 Committee Council report
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