The Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis at the University of Greenwich and Flomerics Ltd, a leading UK software house, were awarded an EPSRC industrial CASE award to support Kulvir Dhinsa for three years of PhD research.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is fast becoming a powerful and almost essential tool for design, development and optimisation of engineering problems. However, turbulence models remain a key issue when tackling such flow phenomena.
The major technical contribution of Kulvir's research was identification of a new low-Reynolds-number transitional turbulence model for accurate prediction of fluid flow and heat transfer around electronic packages located on a built-up printed circuit board. Models have been developed and validated at Greenwich that will enable Flomerics to remain a leading player in the predictive thermal management market. The newly formulated turbulence model has the potential to reduce design time dramatically by helping them investigate new air-cooling options quickly and accurately.
A conference paper (pdf, 469 kbytes) describing some of the project's results was presented at the 2004 Inter Society Conference on Thermal Phenomena (9th ITHERM) Conference in Las Vegas in June 2004.
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