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ORGANISATION
Industrial Advisory Committee
A lot happened last year. Last February 24-rth Professor Gijs Ooms informed the Industrial Advisory Board of JMBC about the fact that the Dutch Cabinet approved a proposal from the three universities of technology in the Netherlands - Delft, Eindhoven and Twente - to federate. A €50 million is being made available in five annual installments to combine their research at fives centers of excellence. The new centers of excellence cover the following areas:
- High-tech systems and materials
- Technologies for sustainable energy
- ICT services and applications (Netherlands Institute for Research on ICT)
- Fluid and solid mechanics
- Applications of nanotechnology
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It is of great importance for the research schools on fluid dynamics and engineering mechanics that fluid and solid mechanics are considered areas of excellence within the academic community in the Netherlands. Following a suggestion of Professor Julian Hunt Professor Gijs Ooms made a collection of high impact co-operations between academia and industry. With permission I list here a number of examples:
- Piezo-electric ink-jet devices (Océ Technologies).
- Improving the sea keeping behaviour of fast monohulls in a seaway (Royal Netherlands Navy and DAMEN Shipyards).
- Experimental and numerical investigation of heat and mass transfer in static mixers (PRIMIX BV).
- Blocking of pores in a porous material by particles much smaller than the pore size and removal of such particles by high-frequency acoustic stimulation (Shell).
- Design of a scaled model of a new generation boiling water reactor, which has been used to study the boiling, two-phase flow and stability characteristics of such a reactor. Among other things, it was found that the reactor shows a significant margin to instable behavior (General Electric Company).
- The effects of droplet entrainment in gas-oil transport in inclined pipes (Shell).
- A new algorithm resulted in a reduction by a factor 100 of computing time for solving wave problems in seismic data processing. This is generating much interest from the oil exploration world. Realistic three-dimensional applications involving the Helmholtz equation have become feasible for the first time (Shell, Philips and Senter-Novem).
- Modern optical techniques now make it possible to measure pressure fluctuations in pipes deep down in oil wells; the study is an important first step to extract information on such flows (Shell).
- Particle based numerical methods and codes have been developed for the simulation of reacting rarefied (high Knudsen number) gas flows (TNO).
- The investigation of the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) as a promising technology for the economical conversion of low-grade heat into electricity (Turboden s.r.l., Triogen B.V., UTC Power and Feyecon B.V.).
- The analysis and prediction of the changes in combustion behavior with varying fuel composition (natural gas, hydrogen, etc.) (KEMA and N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie).
- The development of a numerical wave tank had been developed (HUBRIS) that is used the past years to simulate waves to be generated in wave tanks, thereby reducing the number of actual experiments needed to obtain the desired wave field (MARIN).
- The development of a methodology for monitoring dispersed multiphase flow, using non-linear analysis of pressure fluctuations (IPCOS Technology B.V.).
- The investigation of the two-phase flow in a 150m-long, horizontal flow line (Shell).
- Hydrodynamic wave loading of offshore structures (MARIN (Wageningen), FORCE Technology (Norway), IHC Gusto, Bluewater and Shell).
- The generation of sound by fluid flows (TNO, Philips, Ariane, NLR).
- The physics of the formation of droplets (nucleation) and of multi-component droplet growth in supersaturated natural gas (Twister B.V., Shell and Gasunie).
- Thermo-acoustic noise, generated and amplified by premixed flames in central heating boiler systems (Gasunie, TNO-TPD, ATAG, Remeha, AWB, Bekaert Technology, AGPO and Honeywell).
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End of 2005 I had the privilege to be a member of the evaluation committee of the Physics Research at the Radboud University Nijmegen and the Eindhoven University of Technology. In that quality I witnessed the competitive position of fluid dynamics research among the other research topics of the physics departments in Nijmegen and Eindhoven.
From this place I would like to complement all scientists that have contributed to the present annual report. All the activities in the JM Burgers Centrum are presented in a coherent way in the Annual Report, as well as in the other issues of the J.M. Burgers center such as the Course Program and the JMBC Newsletter. In that way the JMBC presents itself as the main organization on fluid dynamics in the Netherlands.
In the Industrial Advisory Board participate AKZO-Nobel, Teijin-Twaron, DSM, Gasunie, Corus, Philips, Rijkswaterstaat, Shell and Unilever. The names and addresses of the representatives of these companies in the Board are listed in the who and where section of this report. Especially, I would like to encourage the PhD-students but also the permanent staff to take the opportunity to contact one of us when information about one of the participating companies is needed.
Last but not least, I would like to respectful recognize the work of the bureau of the JMBC, Professor Gijs Ooms and Mrs. Ilse Hoekstein-Philips for the professional and careful issuing of the official documents and organizing the events of the research school.
Dr.ir. JF Dijksman, Chairman of the Industrial Advisory Committee
Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven
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