Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics Department

The Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics ideals with all natural and industrial processes in which fluid dynamics plays an important role. The research engineers have extensive experience and genuine expertise to approach new problems in many different kinds of environmental and industrial developments. They often contribute to the solution of a problem encountered by our customer in a process or a plant. In such case, a team is created, grouping together the company’s engineers and the VKI researchers. This group works then within a successful association that uses the in-house expertise of the customer and the VKI specialists in fluid dynamics.

Through these challenging contacts with industry on one side and the continuous involvement in international programs within the turbomachinery research community on the other side, the VKI Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department has developed over the years a widely recognized expertise in most of the important domains of aero-thermal turbomachinery.

On the energy side, the department recently completed the aero-mechanical design of the primary cooling pump of the Myrrha reactor for SCK•CEN in Mol (Belgium), and contributed to product development in several sectors of the energy conversion industry (steam turbines, turbochargers, etc.).