Multiphase Flow Optimisation Strategies with Industrial Applications (MFLOPS)

减少二氧化碳排放的努力需要开发创新和技术上可行的解决方案。技术拥有最大的潜力，可以帮助社会解决以可承受的价格设计节能概念的挑战。在众多因素中，与此建议相关的一个核心特征是多相流的发生，多相流在自然界和工业中无处不在。例如，水力涡轮机、船舶螺旋桨系统和电子燃油喷射器都会受到灾难性空化的影响。在发电领域，沸腾传热是主要的能量转换方式。非混相流体的多相流似乎是运输领域新兴电气化技术高效设计的关键，例如用于创新航空推进系统的电池热管理系统和质子交换膜燃料电池，以及节能船舶的设计。设计高效系统的优化方法在相关技术领域基本上是缺失的。MFLOPS渴望开发耦合多相流和优化方法，包括伴随方法，并将其应用于MFLOPS的非学术受益人和合作伙伴指定的案例。这种研究与工业的结合使MFLOPS成为博士研究人员开始职业生涯的真正创新网络。科学家和行业领袖提供全面的培训，以促进科学任务的完成并将其应用于工业实践。额外的网络，可转移的技能和严格的相关主题的科学培训，使MFLOPS的未来领导者具有跨学科沟通的能力，旨在支持欧洲工业，同时积极参与全球二氧化碳减排的公共任务。

Efforts to reduce CO2 emissions require innovative and technologically viable solutions to be developed. Technology holds the greatest potential to help society address the challenges of designing energy efficient concepts at affordable prices. Among the wide envelope of factors, one core characteristic relevant to this proposal is the occurrence of multiphase flows, which are ubiquitous in nature and industry. For example, hydraulic turbomachines, ship propeller systems, and e-fuel injectors are compromised by the occurrence of catastrophic cavitation. In the field of power generation, boiling heat transfer is the predominant energy conversion method. Multiphase flows for immiscible fluids seem to hold the key to the efficient design of emerging electrification technologies of the transport sector, such as battery thermal management systems and Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cells for innovative aviation propulsion systems, as well as in the design of energy efficient marine vessels. Optimisation methods for designing efficient systems are largely missing from the relevant technological sectors. MFLOPS aspires to develop coupled multiphase flow and optimisation methods, including adjoint methods, and apply them to cases specified by MFLOPS's non-academic beneficiaries and partners. This coupling of research with industry makes MFLOPS a truly innovative network for Doctoral researchers to start their career. A holistic training is provided by scientists and industry leaders to facilitate the accomplishment of the scientific tasks and to apply them to industrial practice. Additional networking, transferable skills and rigorous scientific training on the relevant topics make MFLOPS awell-connected cohort of future leaders with the ability to communicate across disciplines, aiming to support European industries,while been heavily involved in the public mandate for global CO2 reduction.