Assistant Prof. Caleb Brooks will add his expertise to a two-day international short course, Introduction to Computational Techniques for Multiphase Flows. Pratap Vanka, emeritus professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and affiliate faculty of NPRE has organized this short course for the second time, which will be held at the University of Illinois, Chicago, July 21-22, 2018.
Brooks, of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at Illinois, and Vanka have previously co-taught a Spring semester special topics course identified in NPRE as NPRE 598 Computational Multiphase Flow. Much of the material taught in the course will be covered during this short course.
“We’re reviewing the different computational approaches – common multiphase approaches – and giving some update on the current state of the art,” Brooks said. “We will be focusing on liquid and gas flows – how to better model those and how to better capture their behaviors.”
Brooks expects the short course to attract about 30 individuals, including graduate students, postdoctoral research assistants, scientists and engineers working in industry and government, including researchers at Argonne National Laboratory.
Brooks’ research interests include nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics, validation of safety analysis codes and computational fluid dynamics codes, as well as research and design of next generation reactor systems. He earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University, where he worked in the Thermal-hydraulic and Reactor Safety Laboratory (TRSL).
In addition to Vanka and Brooks, other instructors in the short course are Gretar Tryggvason, Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor and Mechanical Engineering department head at Johns Hopkins University, and Farzad Mashayek, professor and head of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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