Germany, September 18-21, 2011

This ERCOFTAC conference will bring together experts and
scientists in the field of advanced modeling and simulation
of multiphase flows in both combustion and gasification.
Multiphase can stand for any combination of gas, liquid and
solid matter. In addition to the continuously high interest
in combustion in multi-phase flows (e.g. in engines, gas
turbines or coal combustors for mobility and power
generation), gasification has recently gained significant
interest.

Description:

 

Both combustion and gasification are multi-scale problems  

with subprocesses such as complex gas-phase kinetics,  

highly turbulent flows, turbulence-chemistry interaction,  

evaporation and break-up of liquid fuels, heterogeneous  

reactions for solid fuels, dense particle systems etc.;  

differences are e.g. the global process fuel/air  

equivalence ratio and the final targeted products. Despite  

the significant overlap of the physical processes, there  

has been only little interaction between the research areas  

and only recently has gasification gained more interest in  

the combustion community. 

 

A special issue of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion will be  

planned after discussion with the Editorial board of the  

journal.  

 

Selected Topics: 

- LES and (U)RANS calculations of multiphase flows  

- Heterogeneous reaction modeling for solid feedstock  

- Feedstock characterization  

- Mineral matter reactions (ash/slag)  

- Calculation of complex thermodynamic equilibria for multi- 

  phase systems  

- Gas-phase chemistry for complex fuels and primary  

  reference fuels  

- Reduced chemical mechanisms for application in CFD  

  simulations  

- Modeling of spray break-up, (multi-component)  

  evaporation and spray flames  

- Dense particle systems