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HEDoctoral network2023–2027

MFLOPS · Multiphase Flow Optimisation Strategies with Industrial Applications

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2023-01-01 → 2027-04-30
EU contribution
€2,607,718
Participants
17
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN

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Results in brief

Multiphase Flow Optimisation Strategies with Industrial Applications

MFLOPS develops optimisation strategies to address real-world industrial applications aligning with Horizon Europe work programme objectives for Climate, Energy and Mobility and addressing the United Nations goals for ‘Affordable and green energy for all’. The Doctoral Candidates develop accurate simulation methods and tools for multiphase flows, couple them with efficient optimisation methods and demonstrate their capabilities for the effective design of hydraulic turbines (Kaplan, Pelton), marine propellers and marine vessel hydrodynamics, fuel cells, high-pressure injectors for E-fuels, cooling systems for compression-ignition engines and immersed Battery Thermal Management System (BTMS). The research topics are divided into three Work Packages: WP 1: Physical models and optimisation methods for cavitation, erosion and noise, aiming to assist in the design of hydraulic turbines (Kaplan and Pelton) and (composite material marine propellers. WP 2: Physical models and optimisation methods for immiscible liquid flows and apply them to the design of low-temperature PEM gas diffusion layers and flow passages of the graphite plates utilised in fuel cells and power/drag-optimised merchant ships and their propeller integration. WP 3: Physical models and optimisation methods for flows involving boiling or supercritical phase-change and heat transfer and aiming to the design of high-pressure fuel injectors utilising e-fuels, submerged BTMSs for EVs and hydrogen electrolysers.

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Project objective

Efforts to reduce CO2 emissions require innovative and technologically viable solutions to be developed. Technology holds the greatest potential to help society address the challenges of designing energy efficient concepts at affordable prices. Among the wide envelope of factors, one core characteristic relevant to this proposal is the occurrence of multiphase flows, which are ubiquitous in nature and industry. For example, hydraulic turbomachines, ship propeller systems, and e-fuel injectors are compromised by the occurrence of catastrophic cavitation. In the field of power generation, boiling heat transfer is the predominant energy conversion method. Multiphase flows for immiscible fluids seem to hold the key to the efficient design of emerging electrification technologies of the transport sector, such as battery thermal management systems and Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cells for innovative aviation propulsion systems, as well as in the design of energy efficient marine vessels. Optimisation methods for designing efficient systems are largely missing from the relevant technological sectors. MFLOPS aspires to develop coupled multiphase flow and optimisation methods, including adjoint methods, and apply them to cases specified by MFLOPS’s non-academic beneficiaries and partners. This coupling of research with industry makes MFLOPS a truly innovative network for Doctoral researchers to start their career. A holistic training is provided by scientists and industry leaders to facilitate the accomplishment of the scientific tasks and to apply them to industrial practice. Additional networking, transferable skills and rigorous scientific training on the relevant topics make MFLOPS a well-connected cohort of future leaders with the ability to communicate across disciplines, aiming to support European industries, while been heavily involved in the public mandate for global CO2 reduction.

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union