Butterworth-Heinemann Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied to Waste-to-Energy Processes: A Hands-On Approach

Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied to Waste-to-Energy Processes: A Hands-On Approach provides the key knowledge needed to perform CFD simulations using powerful commercial software tools. The book focuses on fluid mechanics, heat transfer and chemical reactions. To do so, the fundamentals of CFD are presented, with the entire workflow broken into manageable pieces that detail geometry preparation, meshing, problem setting, model implementation and post-processing actions. Pathways for process optimization using CFD integrated with Design of Experiments are also explored. The book's combined approach of theory, application and hands-on practice allows engineering graduate students, advanced undergraduates and industry practitioners to develop their own simulations. Review Explores CFD simulations, including real-world examples and step-by-step tutorials to perform real-life calculations From the Back Cover Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied to Waste-to-Energy Processes provides the key knowledge needed to perform CFD simulations using powerful commercial software tools to tackle waste-to-energy processes. The focus is on common solution approach to problems involving different phenomena: fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and chemical reactions. To do so, the fundamentals of CFD are presented and the entire workflow is broken down into manageable pieces detailing geometry preparation, meshing, problem setting, model implementation, and post-processing actions. It also explores pathways for process optimization using CFD integrated with Design of Experiments. The books combined approach of theory, application and hands-on practice allows engineering graduate students, advanced undergraduates, junior researchers and industry practitioners to develop their own simulations and apply them to their needs in waste-to-energy conversion. A large range of professionals from energy, aerospace, mechanical, chemical, civil and marine engineering fields will also find in this book a useful resource, especially for thermochemical conversion processes in research and industrial environments. About the Author Dr. Silva is working as Senior Researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal. He leads a team whose research focus is the use of numerical and analytical tools that could facilitate solutions for the long term of energy-related societal problems, namely, exploring the use of waste blends to produce high-quality syngas in quasi-industrial gasifiers, by means of experimental and numerical approaches tied by validation and uncertainty quantification techniques. In the last 5 years, Dr. Silva has been heading and co-heading several national and international projects (industrial and academic) with a total funding of 888 k€. He promoted the knowledge transference between the academy and the industry through the implementation of predictive tools targeting products and process optimization in several Portuguese companies. He has leading several international cooperation projects with recognized institutions such as the University of Carnegie Mellon or the University of Texas at Austin, to mention a few. Recently, he has completed the Specialist´s degree in Numerical Simulation in Engineering with ANSYS ministered by the Technical University of Madrid and ANSYS.