{"id":531,"date":"2017-11-01T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.198.183.193\/?p=531"},"modified":"2017-12-05T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:19:37","slug":"thermcyc-advanced-thermodynamic-cycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/thermcyc-advanced-thermodynamic-cycles\/","title":{"rendered":"THERMCYC \u2013 Advanced Thermodynamic Cycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigator: <a href=\"http:\/\/personprofil.aau.dk\/114810?lang=en\">Associate Professor Kim S\u00f8rensen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faculty of Engineering &#8211; Department of Energy Technology &#8211; AAU<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We research the adhesive nature of small micron-sized particles in a turbulent flow. Due to the small size of the particles, inter-molecular forces such as van der Waals attraction becomes important. Due to the complex interaction between the adhesive particles and a turbulent flow, experimental studies are almost impossible to control to a satisfactory degree.<\/p>\n<p>In our work, we therefore rely on numerical simulations using Large Eddy Simulations (LES) to the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to simulate how a high number of particles agglomerate in a turbulent flow. As particles collide over time intervals much smaller than the overall agglomeration process, these simulations tend to be computational expensive. Based on preliminary results published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.powtec.2017.07.006\">Powder Technology <\/a>, we have used ABACUS 2.0 to parametrically investigate how particle and fluid properties affect particle agglomeration.<\/p>\n<p>As the computational time scales almost linearly with number of cores for our simulations, we have been able to run simulations that would not have been possible without ABACUS 2.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigator: Associate Professor Kim S\u00f8rensen Faculty of Engineering &#8211; Department of Energy Technology &#8211; AAU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/escience.sdu.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}