Seminar on Modeling Oct. 2014 - Marc Massot: Eulerian models for the description of polydisperse sprays : from fundamental issues to industrial applications and HPC

The modeling and simulation of multiphase reacting flows covers a large spectrum of applications ranging from combustion in automobile and aeronautical engines to atmospheric pollution as well as biomedical engineering. In the framework of this seminar, we will mainly focus on a disperse liquid phase carried by a gaseous flow field which can be either laminar or turbulent; however, this spray can be polydisperse, that is constituted of droplets with a large size spectrum. Thus, such flows involve a large range of temporal and spatial scales which have to be resolved in order to capture the dynamics of the phenomena and provide reliable and eventually predictive simulation tools. Even if the power of the computer resources regularly increases, such very stiff problems can lead to serious numerical difficulties and prevent efficient multi-dimensional simulations.