iSGTW Image of the week: FOCUS on fire

Image of the week - FOCUS on fire This image shows a flame held by a flameholder. The FOCUS project simulations have demonstrated that taking radiation into consideration when making calculations modifies the dynamics of the flame. Image courtesy of FOCUS Combustion is hot stuff, playing a part in more than 80 percent of primary energy conversion processes worldwide; however, the way things burn remains a complex phenomenon, characterized by instabilities and side effects, such as pollutant formation and radiative heat transfer.Hot computingComplex numerical simulations are used to aid the design of industrial combustors, and now a team of researchers is using Europe’s DEISA e-infrastructure to make these simulations even more accurate.The team, a collaboration between Olivier Gicquel’s team at the EM2C laboratory of the Ecole Centrale Paris and the IDRIS team at CNRS in France, say CPU-power fueled their results. “The DEISA project gave us access to the coupling technology that we required,” says Gicquel. “It also provided u