GFN will present at the 6th OpenFOAM workshop their work on the development of Eulerian-Eulerian multiphase solvers for OpenFOAM. The contribution Development of a consistent and conservative Eulerian-Eulerian algorithm for multiphase flows by Ana Cubero, Alberto Sanchez-Insa, Norberto Fueyo will highlight recent progress in the development of a new Eulerian-Eulerian, multiphase solver for OpenFOAM. Compared [...]
GFN researchers will be advising the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of El Salvador on the likely impact on the electricity tariff of alternative, future options for power generation in El Salvador. As a part of the transition to a more diversified, modern economy, the Government of El Salvador is studing options for increasing [...]
The GFN will be present at 4th Spring Colloquium on Forest Ecophysiology in Añón del Moncayo, Zaragoza, Spain, where Norberto Fueyo will deliver the talk Trichomes, ambient moisture and transpiration: a fluid-dynamics study co-authored with Alberto Sánchez, Ramón Chordá, Carlos Montañés, from GFN and Eustaquio Gil, Sergio Sisó from Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria [...]
GFN will be attending the 36th IAEE International Conference that will be held in Daegu, Korea on June 16–20, 2013. The conference theme is Energy Transition and Policy Challenges, and GFN's Norberto Fueyo will be delivering a paper co-authored with economists from the Asian Development Bank entitled Energy Security, Sustainability and Affordability in Developing Asia [...]
GFN will participate at the NETL Small Scale Challenge Problem (SSCP-I), a blind test for fluidized beds models released by the US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The purpose of SSCP-I is to improve the reliability of computational models using experimental measurements in a small scale fluidized bed. The stages of [...]
GFN will be present at the FLEXI BURN CFB Workshop in Ponferrada, Spain on Feb 6th. The FLEXI BURN CFB project aims to develop and demonstrate a power plant concept based on the Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) technology combined with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The workshop will provide an overview of the current status [...]
GFN has been contracted by the Manila-based Asian Development Bank to conduct an assessment of the energy sectors in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Download here the executive summary of the final reports: Kazakhstan Uzbekistan
El GFN ha dirigido la realización del Proyecto Fin de Carrera de dos estudiantes de la EUITIZ dentro del proyecto MotoStudent. Aitor Aladrén y Javier Añón han utilizado software de Fluidododinámica Computacional de dominio público para calcular la aerodinámica del carenado, y optimizado su diseño. MotoStudent es una competición entre universidades de todo el mundo, [...]
GFN will participate in the 7th OpenFOAM® Workshop that will be held on 25–28 June 2012, in Darmstadt, Germany. OpenFOAM® is the leading open source solution for Computational Fluid Dynamics. Dr María García-Camprubí will present our latest developments in the multiphysics modelling and simulation of solid oxide regenerative fuel cells in an oral presentation entitled [...]
GFN is back to Lucerne! In 2010 GFN presented at the European SOFC Forum the first results of an emerging research line on the numerical simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC). Two years later, we will be back at the Forum to show how this research line has evolved and consolidated. In partnership with [...]