Heat Transfer Research by the UK Turbulence Consortium

Simulating and understanding turbulent is one of the most challenging problems in science. Many of the environmental and energy-related issues we face today cannot possibly be tackled without a better understanding of turbulence. The overarching objective of the UK Turbulence Consortium (UKTC) is to facilitate world-class turbulence research using national High-End Computing (HEC) resources. The consortium serves as a forum to communicate research and HEC expertise within the UK turbulence community, and to help UK science remain internationally leading in this aspect of HEC-based research.

In this video, the focus is on heat transfer which has a major influence on our every day life as it affects tools such as laptops and ventilation/heating/cooling systems. It is essential that heat transfer systems are designed to maximize efficiency because they often represent the most energy intensive processes in a system, and a failure to focus on efficiency can drive up costs unnecessarily. Understanding how to design effective, efficient heat transfer systems is important and requires knowledge of key process variables such as the fluids' physical characteristics, flow rates, temperatures and pressures.