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[Seminar] Computational fluid dynamics modeling applied to heat exchangers – an overview of some of the modeling capabilities in development
March 11, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Dr. Marco Delchini
Computational Fluid Dynamics Analyst and Developer
Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Abstract
This seminar will present some of the most recent projects within the TH group at ORNL. The first part of the seminar will focus on projects with industry to develop CFD models for an organic heat exchanger and a high-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Results obtained with the commercial CFD package STAR-CCM+ will be presented. The second part of the seminar will focus on projects involving development of tools and in-house codes (NEAMS Workbench, Galerkin finite element method and Lattice Boltzmann method).
This seminar will present some of the most recent projects within the TH group at ORNL. The first part of the seminar will focus on projects with industry to develop CFD models for an organic heat exchanger and a high-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Results obtained with the commercial CFD package STAR-CCM+ will be presented. The second part of the seminar will focus on projects involving development of tools and in-house codes (NEAMS Workbench, Galerkin finite element method and Lattice Boltzmann method).
Biography
Dr. Marc-Olivier G. Delchini is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Analyst and Developer in the Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division (RNSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his MS (2010) and PhD (2014) in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University. His dissertation focused on numerical methods for PDEs using finite element method (FEM) applied to single-phase flow, multi-phase flow, and the radiation hydrodynamic equations. During his PhD, he interned at Idaho National Laboratory where he gained experience with the MOOSE framework and RELAP7 system code. After his PhD, he spent one year in the Department of Mathematics at TAMU as a visiting scholar where he did some more work on numerical methods before moving to ORNL. He has been employed at ORNL since January 2016. At ORNL, he has been involved with numerous projects focusing on CFD analysis and code development including COBRA-TF, Nek5000, STAR-CCM+, MFEM, and the NEAMS Workbench.
Thursday, March 11. 2021
4:00 pm seminar
https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/97448361545