Meeting Agenda
North American Chemical Process CFD User Group
May 10-11, 2000
Procter & Gamble
Cincinnati, Ohio
The mission of the CPCFD User Group is to promote the exchange of ideas and provide updates on the latest technology developments on the application of CFD to process engineering. The CPCFD User Group is in its 8th year and going strong!
The CPCFD User Group meeting will be held at Procter & Gamble's Corporate Engineering Technologies Laboratory at 8256 Union Center, West Chester, OH 45069. Thomas Niederkorn and Minye Liu of Procter & Gamble will be our hosts. The meeting starts with registration from 1:00 pm on May 10 and concludes at 3:30 pm on May 11. Here is a link to a map to Corporate Engineering Technologies Laboratory and a link to the general area. Follow this link for registration and travel information.
| 12:00 N | Registration & Lunch | Corporate Engineering Technologies Laboratory
8256 Union Center West Chester, Ohio |
| 1:45 | Welcome | Dick LaRoche, DuPont Engineering
Thomas Niederkorn, Procter & Gamble |
| 2:00 | Overview of CFD Activities at Procter & Gamble | Tom J. Lange
Procter & Gamble |
| 2:30 | A Chemical Manufacturing Perspective on CFD Research Needs | Paul Gillis
Dow Chemical |
| 3:00 | Simulation of Turbulent Precipitation using Computational Fluid Dynamics | Rodney Fox
Iowa State University |
| 3:30 | Break | |
| 4:00 | Mesh Generation for Chemical Process Simulation using Fuzzy-logic Block Decomposition | Reza Taghavi
Simulation Works |
| 4:30 | CFD and Dynamic Process Simulation | Luca Zullo
Process Systems Enterprise |
| 5:00 | Adjourn | |
| 6:30 | Reception | Beckett
Ridge Country Club
5595 Beckett Ridge Blvd West Chester, Ohio |
| 7:15 PM | Dinner |
Thursday, May 11, 2000
| 8:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | Corporate Engineering Technologies Laboratory
8256 Union Center West Chester, Ohio |
| 8:30 | Modeling of Gas-Liquid Flows in Stirred Vessels:
Simulation of Trailing Vortices and Gas Accumulation Behind Impeller Blades |
Vivek Ranade
National Chemistry Laboratory, India |
| 9:00 | Status of Validation of Chemical Reacting Fluidized Bed Modeling | Thomas J. O'Brien
National Energy Technology Laboratory |
| 9:30 | Towards Reliable Validated CFD Simulations of Industrial Mixing | David Brown
BHR Group |
| 10:00 | Break | |
| 10:30 | The Use of CFD for High Accuracy Flow Metrology | Aaron Johnson
National Institute of Standards & Technology |
| 11:00 | CFD Consulting Studies in LDPE Manufacturing and Non-Woven
Fiber Modeling |
Lanre Oshinowo and André Bakker
Fluent |
| 11:30 | Reactor Modeling Case Studies Using CFD | Joe Hannon
Performance Fluid Dynamics |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | Procter & Gamble Tour | Minye Liu & Thomas Niederkorn
Procter & Gamble |
| 1:30 | Modeling of Multiphase Flows in Multi-Impellers Stirred Vessels | Harbi Pordal
AEA Technology |
| 2:00 | Modelling of Polyurethane Foams using an Euler-Euler Approach | Maziar Kakhi
Bayer AG |
| 2:30 | Addressing Turbulent Mixing Problems with CFD | Richard LaRoche
DuPont Engineering |
| 3:00 | Wrap-Up Discussion | |
| 3:30 | Adjourn |