Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Chemical & Biological Engineering (Courtesy)
Associate Director Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education (CoMFRE)

Interest Areas

• Multiphase fluid dynamics
• Fluid particle flows
• Electrostatics in fluid-particle flows
• Quadrature-based moment methods
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Numerical methods for computational fluid dynamics
• Development of open-source tools for computational fluid dynamics
• Uncertainty quantification

Applications of computational fluid dynamics investigated in the group

• Bubble columns
• Two- and three-phase stirred tank reactors
• Fluidized bed reactors (bubbling beds, risers)
• Multi-inlet vortex reactors to produce nanoparticles
• Fermenters
• Electrolyzers
• Lagoon biodigesters
• Ventilation in barns

Codes

• OpenQBMM – An open-source implementation of quadrature-based moment methods
  • Website: www.openqbmm.org 
  • GitHub: https://github.com/OpenQBMM/OpenQBMM 
  • Also available as a submodule in ESI-OpenFOAM
• Codes and tools to model autothermal biomass fast pyrolysis
  • https://github.com/Biomass-Autothermal-Pyrolysis 
• Implementation of the dynamic Smagorinsky model in OpenFOAM
  • Available for both ESI and Foundation version of OpenFOAM on GitHub: https://github.com/AlbertoPa/dynamicSmagorinsky 
  • Integrated into ESI-OpenFOAM