• CFD for external aerodynamics in the built environment
• CFD simulations of the wind environment around an airport terminal building
• An overview of numerical bridge deck aerodynamics
• 2D finite-element modelling of the lower Rhine river

Also available on the QNET-CFD website are proceedings from the 2nd QNET-CFD workshop and presentations from the 3rd QNET-CFD workshop.

The software runs Fluent's general purpose CFD code, FLUENT 6.1, and pre-processor, GAMBIT 2.1, in the background, with a user-friendly, student-specific graphical user interface (GUI) on its front end. Students have been using FlowLab as a complement to traditional lab exercises for two years and this release provides additional features and functionality:

Researchers at Penn State University Applied Research Laboratory (USA), Center for Medical Diagnostic Systems and Visualization (Germany), and Image Processing Laboratory, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology (Germany), are using modern medical imaging technology and three-dimensional, time accurate mul­tiphase CFD to model oxygen uptake and particle deposition in the human respiratory system.

A physically accurate representation of the trachea and most of the convective regime bronchi (up to generation 13) are obtained using high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of a rubber cast of an adult human tracheobronchial tree (Fig. 1). A triangulated model of this data is used as a bounding surface for hybrid unstructured meshes generated using the ICEM CFD 4.2 package.

The [CFD] technique is easy to apply to investigations where there are either no chemical reactions or where the reactions all take place in a gaseous phase. But where solid beds of material catalyse the reactions, the surface chemistry and heat transfer to/from the bed also need to be incorporated.

Initial application of CFD to packed bed reactors has been to just look at a simplified system (for example, just the flow and pressure losses), then infer good or bad performance based on that. Recent developments in CFD software focused on this application are intended to make it much easier to undertake simulations, moving towards direct prediction of performance.

Invited Speakers are: Remi Abgral (Bordeaux), Jerry Brackbill (Los Alamos), Tom Hou (Caltech), Tony Hutton (QinetiQ Ltd), Andy Keane (Southampton), Roland Keunings (CESAME Louvain), Mike King (BP), Anthony Patera (MIT), Piotr Smolarkiewicz (NCAR Boulder), John Trangenstein (Duke), Alessandro Veneziani (Milan), Andy Wathen (Oxford).

Dealine for two page abstracts 25 NOVEMBER 2003.

For further details see the conference website.

This service will allow Fluent users to dimension their resources according to their real needs without committing themselves to large investments in computing resources.

More info: http://www.gridcore.se/shownews.php?id=20