Time seems perpetual during 2020! Team CTF@UConn celebrated the new beginning with an ancient perpetual calendar (Antikythera Mechanism) that shares some core functionalities as the gear turbo fan!

From Prof. Lee Langston’s article “Gears Steer New Engine Designs“: Gear trains are one of the oldest known machines and none is more closely identified by the general public, with the profession of mechanical engineering. Gears use the principle of the lever to alter the speed and torque carried by shafts, and can be traced back as far as 3000 BC in use in China. One of the most famous of ancient gear assemblies is the Antikythera Mechanism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism), recovered in 1900 from a shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Possibly constructed in Rhodes in 150-100 BC, the mechanism is an astronomical analog calculator (or orrery) that was probably used as one of the first analog computers to show celestial positions of the sun and moon, the time of solar eclipses and the dates of Olympic and Pan-Hellenic games. The Antikythera Mechanism has some 30 intermeshing gears, which include an epicyclic gear train.

Organized by CTF@UCONN, a group of 15 UCONN undergraduate and graduate students visit FM Global’s research campus. A lab tour followed by a small fire test demonstration was hosted. Impressive experience for everyone! Below is a video of the fire test: with (left) and without (right) a sprinkler system. Safety awareness and fire protection are absolutely essential!

 

Many factors contribute to the strength of radiative absorption and scattering for a single droplet. Predictive calculations of radiation in a multiphase environment requires detailed modeling. Why and how? See below.

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Wr41564SFsR8

The following link will be available till May 26, 2018. Feel free to read about our latest progress and findings. Email us with your questions and comments!

Good job @Bifen WU.

We are exploring the exciting interactions between intense turbulence and combustion!

https://today.uconn.edu/school-stories/professor-xinyu-zhao-awarded-450000-grant-conduct-aeronautical-combustion-research/

CTF@UCONN is recently awarded 2,200,432 SUs on Stampede (TACC Dell PowerEdge C8220 Cluster with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors (Stampede)) and 2TB TACC long-term tape archival storage. The value of these awarded resources is $76,172.96. The resources will be used to investigate the effects of radiative heat transfer in coal combustion, using high-fidelity turbulence and radiation models. Congratulations everyone.

For those of you who are interested in high-performance computing, here is a good opportunity for summer intern in NCAR.

https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/siparcs

A draft version of the paper can be found in the publication page.

Group meeting time for Fall 2015 is every Monday afternoon from 3:00 to 4:00 in Room 370. Anyone who is interested in our research is welcome to sit in our meeting.