E115 Environmental Impact Assessment

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology has been routinely used in various industries to solve complex real-life fluid flow and heat/mass transfer problems, better understand complicated physics, identify health & safety concerns and discover best-in-class design solutions. In the training course, the environmental, buildings and cleantech CFD applications will be reviewed. Design engineers, R&D professionals, university students, environmental consultants, building managers, health & safety professionals are invited and they will benefit from taking the course. The benefits of using CFD include faster design and launch of better-quality products, avoiding design deficiencies, solving more difficult problems and achieving safer working conditions. It is cheaper than experimentation, based on fundamental physical laws and presenting conventional virtual reality 3D interface for design and analyses.

In the 1st part of training course, the basic concepts of CFD will be studied. General-purpose CFD software, PHOENICS /FLAIR, developed by CHAM Ltd. (www.cham.co.uk) and distributed by ACFDA (www.acfda.org ), CHAM’s Agency since 1998, will be used for studying the CFD basics and having hands-on modeling experience. A combination of lectures & workshops will be applied to develop and employ the skills required for performing a standard CFD simulation, i.e. input data preparation, selection of physical models and boundary conditions, geometry and grid implementation, specifying the numerical settings and controlling the convergence of iterations, post-processing and analyzing the results and making practical recommendations. Training documentation available on the websites of ACFDA and CHAM will be used (https://www.acfda.org/docs/Program2023_3days.pdf, https://www.cham.co.uk/documentation.php). A free 1-month PHOENICS software license will be provided to attendees.

In the 2nd part of the course, we consider some of the following real-life environmental and cleantech CFD applications.

1. CFD analysis of indoor air quality & virus transmission in a typical dental clinic to develop proper mitigation measures (https://www.acfda.org/results/Aerosol_Dental1.pdf, www.acfda.org, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7157042923778281473/ );

2. Simulation of two-phase pollution dispersion from industrial stacks to predict potential deposition of pollutants and propose safety and health measures (https://www.acfda.org/docs/Paper_ICONE22-30010_Agranat_et_al.pdf , https://www.acfda.org/results/2014_ASSE-MEC_CFD.pdf );

3. Wildfire propagation modeling to suggest effective protective actions (https://www.acfda.org/results/Agranat_Perminov_EMS_2020.pdf , www.acfda.org );

4. Simulation of gas-liquid flows and heat transfer in electrolysis cells to recommend the optimal & safe design options (https://www.acfda.org/docs/ASME2006-98355.pdf).

After the course completion, trainees will better realize the important benefits of performing the CFD analyses for various environmental and cleantech applications and become more prepared for using CFD for solving the challenging problems linked to climate change, green energy and environmental concerns.

Trainer: Olalekan Onilude, PhD

Full Bio: https://rwinstitute.ca/olalekan-onilude/

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