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Area Engineering
Numerical models of droplet evaporation and combustion of zero-carbon fuels
keywords COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS, FLUID DYNAMICS
Reference persons LUCA BRANDT
External reference persons Prof Schulze-Netzer and Dr Mukherjee at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Research Groups Meccanica dei fluidi ed idraulica ambientale
Thesis type COMPUTATIONAL, MASTER'S DEGREE
Description Understanding the combustion of zero-carbon fuels is critical as they provide a path to a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future.
Though experimental data are invaluable, these are limited due to the challenges posed by extreme conditions within combustion chambers. For an elaborate understanding of a multiphase, multiphysics, and multi-scale phenomena, the combustion research tends therefore to rely more and more on high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
For this project, we will utilize a recently developed code for multiphase flows with interface tracking, and the inherent ability to simulate heat and mass fluxes at a moving interface (phase-change) in weakly compressible gases.
The work is a collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Student can carry out the proposed work in Torino or in Trondheim.
See also tesi-ntnu2.pdf
Required skills Knowledge in fluid mechanics and basic of numerical analysis
Deadline 09/09/2025
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