Climate forces across scales: Exploring how new experimentation for large-scale fluid dynamics can address climate, energy, and infrastructure challenges.

Hosted by the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment affiliated faculty Dr. Forrest Meggers (ARC), Dr. Marcus Hultmark (MAE), and Dr. Elie Bou-zeid (CEE) for a culmination of research leading to the upcoming installation of a new one-of-a-kind pressurized wind tunnel to enable new experimental research on large scale systems.

The project was supported in part by the Andlinger Center and began in 2018. The goal of the workshop is to review the current state of knowledge about experimental and theoretical approaches for understanding large-scale fluids problems and discuss associated research challenges and opportunities in the areas of energy, climate, and infrastructure. 

The workshop will be held virtually on Thursday, January 28 between noon and 2:30 p.m. Please register in advance here.

We look forward to your participation. Please share with other collaborators or researchers you think would contribute to and benefit from the workshop.

AGENDA

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Welcome and Overview of Fluids Scales and the background on the new pressurized wind tunnel develoment
Forrest Meggers, ACEE/ARC
Marcus Hultmark, MAE
Elie Bou-Zeid, CEE

12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. General Questions Raised in Fluid Dynamics and Implications for Applying CFD to Specific Topics in Infrastructure, Urban
Design, Energy, and Climate

-10 MINUTE BREAK-

1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Infrastructure – e.g. the fluid interactions for resiliency installation like flood walls, tall buildings, and the urban environment, also floating cities.
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Energy – e.g. wind turbines, urban heat island phenomena, and scaling of of buoyancy driven flows and natural ventilation systems in buildings
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Climate – e.g. large scale storms and associated damage and debris from large scale fluid dynamic interactions.
2:30 p.m. Adjourn