Berta Matas Güell, SINTEF Host: Chris Shaddix During a month-long stay at the CRF, Berta employed Sandia’s unique reactor facilities to study the high-temperature entrained flow gasification rates of coal and biomass particles. Findings will be used to model gasifier performance, an important step toward an approach for producing liquid transportation fuels. Berta is an…
On May 14, the Center for Exascale Simulation of Combustion in Turbulence (ExaCT) held its biannual all-hands meeting at the CRF. The meeting was attended by computer scientists, applied mathematicians and computational combustion scientists from ExaCT, and high-performance computing (HPC) vendors and computer scientists associated with DOE’s X-Stack program (aimed at developing programming environments for…
Various CRF staff members attended the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 2013 International Congress from April 16–18 in Detroit, Michigan. Each year this event draws over 10,000 people from 45 countries, representing original equipment manufacturers, suppliers, academia, research and development, and government. Chuck Mueller and Jacqueline O’Connor each received an SAE Engineering Meetings Board Outstanding…