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A Workshop entitled “ Safety & Regulation Valves” is organized at the von Karman Institute on 8-9 April 2015,  to make the state of the art of  the latest developments in this field. In particular, modelling of flows through industrial valves is of  great scientific and practical interest, with a wide range of applications such as power generation, chemical, oil/gas ,  LNG  and heating. Emphasis will be given to two phase, non Newtonian and cryogenic  flows. Studies conducted on  small and large scale experimental systems and CFD simulation will be presented. All the devices such as safety valves, control valves, non return valves or micro–valves  when operating under two phase or complex fluid flow conditions are concerned.

The workshop is intended to acquaint young researchers with this  contemporary field, to  promote collaboration and consolidate this area of research in Europe.”

Not exhaustive list of typical  topics to be addressed:

• Cavitation in valves

        Pressure loss
        Erosion
        Materials

•     Compressible flows

        Vapour and Gas in regulation valves
        Coupled Mechanical/hydraulic dynamic approach
        Operation/flow coupling
        Behaviour of valves connected to pipes

•     Applications by end-users

        Reliability and SIL
        Materials
        Sealing

•     Application to special-valves e.g.

        Micro valve
        LNG cryogenic valve
        Aortic valve

Interested people are invited to submit an abstract of one A4 page (with figure included) as soon as possible.

Location : von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode-St-Genèse, Belgium