Project description
Modelling heat and mass transfer across fluid interfaces
The EU-funded TRUFLOW project aims to predict, understand and control heat and mass transfer across fluctuating fluid interfaces. The project will allow researchers to explore phenomena where molecular-scale effects can control the macro-scale fluid behaviour. Using the latest interface tracking and sub-grid scale methods, TRUFLOW will investigate a range of critical processes involving heat and mass transfer. These include improved carbon capture processes (such as rotating packed beds) in industries, hydrogen-based metallurgy, heat and mass transfer in hydrogen fuel cells, boiling and cavitation simulations and CO2 transfer across the wavy ocean surface. The project’s cutting-edge techniques will simulate heat and mass transfer on multiple scales.
Objective
The prediction of heat and mass transfer across fluctuating fluid interfaces is a considerable challenge. It is however not only an ubiquitous part of industrial processes, but also a critical component of the global climate system through ocean-atmosphere interactions. Sustainable development and greenhouse gas emission containment will require an overhaul of already knowledge-intensive processes. TRUFLOW thus aims at enabling the quantitative prediction of the heat and mass transfer in fluid flow using simulation, high performance computation and multiphysics, multiscale methods. Using presently available, cutting edge interface tracking and subgrid scale methods TRUFLOW will investigate a range of critical processes, allowing for example industry to plan for improved carbon capture processes such as rotating packed beds, new processes such as hydrogen-based metallurgy to replace carbon based metallurgy, heat and mass transfer in hydrogen fuel cells, boiling and cavitation simulation and CO2 transfer across the wavy ocean surface. The key limiting factor in the success of simulation in this domain is the considerable range of scales expected, with slowly diffusing chemicals creating boundary layers that are orders of magnitude smaller than the typical fluid structures, bubbles or droplets. Critical heat fluxes in boiling and interface motion at the microscale are determined by contact line motion, which involves tiny molecular scales. TRUFLOW will bridge these various extreme length scale gaps using state of the art methods. It will result in direct high performance simulations of heat and mass transfer, coupled simulation and analysis of existing experimental data, an analysis of the performance of reduced models of flows with tiny scale transfers, and a systematic use of these models in industrial or natural configurations.
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- engineering and technology materials engineering metallurgy
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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75006 PARIS
France
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