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Academic Spotlight: Investigating Hydrogen-Diesel Dual-Fuel Engines
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Until a few years ago, I never thought much about diesel engines. In the United States, very few passenger cars have diesel engines, and while I was aware that they were used in vehicles like long-haul trucks, mostly I was just glad that I didn't have to pay for the pricier diesel fuel when I filled...
The Collaboration Effect: Developing a New Generation of Gas Turbine & Rotating Detonation Engines
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From the Argonne National Laboratory + Convergent Science Blog Series Imagine this: You're flying on a plane. Maybe you're sitting in the window seat, eating airline pretzels, happily watching an in-flight movie. But then, the flame in one of the plane's gas turbine engines blows out. Should you...
2020: THE YEAR of CFD (Computing From a Distance)
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We've reached the end of 2020, and I think it's fair to say this year did not go as planned. The coronavirus pandemic disrupted our lives and brought on unexpected challenges and hardships. However, this difficult time has also highlighted the resiliency of people all around the globe—we have...
Cool Your Pistons Like You Cool Your Cocktail
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In my first year of graduate school, a friend always filled up her water bottle, dropped some ice cubes into it, and then shook it up in order to cool the water faster. If she had added the ice cubes and let the water bottle sit, eventually all the water would equilibrate to the same temperature,...
The Collaboration Effect: Advancing Engines Through Simulation & Experimentation
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From the Argonne National Laboratory + Convergent Science Blog Series Through the collaboration between Argonne National Laboratory and Convergent Science, we provide fundamental research that enables manufacturers to design cleaner and more efficient engines by optimizing combustion. –Doug Longman,...
Exploring Offshore Wind Energy: Creating a Cleaner Future With CFD
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Renewable energy is being generated at unprecedented levels in the United States, and those levels will only continue to rise. The growth in renewable energy has been driven largely by wind power—over the last decade, wind energy generation in the U.S. has increased by 400% 1. It's easy to see why...
CONVERGE for Pumps & Compressors: The Engineering Solution for Design Optimization
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Across industries, manufacturers share many of the same goals: create quality products, boost productivity, and reduce expenses. In the pumps and compressors business, manufacturers must contend with the complexity of the machines themselves in order to reach these goals. Given the intricate...
Leveling Up Scaling with CONVERGE 3.0
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In a competitive market, predictive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can give you an edge when it comes to product design and development. Not only can you predict problem areas in your product before manufacturing, but you can also optimize your design computationally and devote fewer resources...
The Collaboration Effect: A Decade of Innovation
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From the Argonne National Laboratory + Convergent Science Blog Series The world is waiting for us to develop the tools needed to design new engine architectures, new concepts, with a finer control over the combustion process. If we can continue to make the progress we've achieved over the last ten...
Models On Top of Models: Thickened Flames in CONVERGE
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Any CONVERGE user knows that our solver includes a lot of physical models. A lot of physical models! How many combinations exist? How many different ways can you set up a simulation? That's harder to answer than you might think. There might be N turbulence models and M combustion models, but the...