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26.02.2013

Advisory Board Meeting

The picture gallery of the Advisory Board Meeting in december 2012 is online.

26.02.2013

Status Seminar

The picture gallery of the Advisory Board Meeting in december 2012 is online.

08.02.2013

IEC/Virtuhcon-Seminar

Hier finden Sie den Terminplan für das IEC/Virtuhcon-Seminar 2013.

13/14.12.2012

Advisory Board Meeting

The agenda of our advisory board meeting in december is online.

Virtuhcon- Microsite

VIRTUHCON - Virtual High Temperature Conversion

Welcome on the Virtuhcon (Virtual High Temperature Conversion) web page. The centre focuses on the modelling and the simulation of high temperature conversion processes such as coal gasification and combustion.

Computer based modelling and the simulation of complex processes by the means of high performance computing, ranging up to the complete virtualisation, are a key technology for innovative and efficient development strategies. Process virtualisation in this case means the comprehensive combination and integration of individual models and simulations. This approach allows the examination, the adaptation, the optimisation and the reconfi guration of processes in virtual reality. Thus, it is possible to study and to develop completely new solutions without the need for the construction of test plants for each investigation. Development times can be shortened; the risk and financial efforts are reduced. The superior objective of the Centre for Innovation Competence "Virtual High Temperature Conversion Processes - Virtuhcon" at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg is the introduction of this development strategy into the dynamic and economically as well as environmentally explosive field of the primary industry.

Fields of Research

Reacting flow systems

The research of the Reacting Flow Systems (RSS) group focusses on the numerical simulation of high-temperature conversion processes using so­phis­ti­cated models combined with 3D CFD. The researchers work both on the multi-scale model development for chemically reacting gas flows as well as on the integrated and comprehensive process simulation and virtualisation of the full process. Advanced submodels developed by the MPS and IPP groups are combined with the newly developed models from the group itself for Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulations of gasification and combustion processes.

Multi-phase systems

Scientists of the multi-phase systems group will analyse the behaviour of the different forms of materials, their interactions and structural and physical or chemical changes during high temperature conversion processes (taking into account thermo­dyna­mics).

Interphase phenomena

The interphase phenomena group will investigate the processes and mechanisms of phase boundaries and boundary layers of phase boundaries in fluid flows. The main aspects are the mass and energy transport and process related changes of the phase boundary and the boundary layer.

Funding