Mehrdad Shahnam

Dear MFIX user, The annual multiphase flow sciences workshop, hosted by NETL’s Multiphase Flow Research Team, was held on August 16-18 in Pittsburgh, PA. Over eighty researchers from around the world attended. During the three day workshop, 40 presentations were made covering areas of interest to the multiphase community, such as fundamental multiphase model development, application of

Dear MFIX user, The results, to date, of NETL funded research project entitled “Development, Verification, and validation of Multiphase Models for Polydisperse Flows” being conducted by a team of researchers from University of Colorado, PSRI, Iowa State University, and Princeton University have been released and are available at https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1039998. Regards, MFIX Development Team

Dear MFIX user, NETL, in collaboration with PSRI, has released experimental data for the Challenge Problems. Data is available for the NETL’s Circulating Fluidized Bed and PSRI’s bubbling fluid bed. Please visit the Challenge Problem section to view or download the data. Regards,MFIX Development Team

Dear MFIX user, We are pleased to announce that a team of researchers at NETL has been awarded 6 Million processors hours through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. The title of the project is “Clean and Efficient Coal Gasifier Designs Using Large-Scale Simulations”. The allocated computational resources will allow researchers

Dear MFIX user, Please follow the link below to view a video featuring Madhava Syamlal (Focus Area Leader for Computational and Basic Sciences at NETL). The video discusses the utilization of MFIX to model a gasifier. The video is hosted by ASCR DISCOVERY (Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research in the Department of Energy Office of Science).

Dear MFIX user, The 2009 Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science was held in Morgantown, WV, on April 22-23, 2009, and regrouped 66 participants from the industry and academia. The proceeding from the workshop can be found at:http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/09/mfs/index.html Regards, MFIX Development Team

Dear MFIX user, The following paper discussing the open source experiences with MFIX has been published: Madhava Syamlal, Thomas J. O’Brien, Sofiane Benyahia, Aytekin Gel, and Sreekanth Pannala, Open-Source Software in Computational Research: A Case Study, Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, vol. 2008, Article ID 937542, 10 pages, 2008. doi:10.1155/2008/937542. You may access this article from the