ULB Research ⤶ |
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Faculty of Applied Sciences | Discipline: Chemistry and materials
Faculty of Applied Sciences | Discipline: Mathematics, physics
Faculty of Applied Sciences | Discipline: Electromechanical systems and fluid processes
Faculty of Applied Sciences | Societal impact: Energy
(Code: ULB829)
Person in charges of the unit : HAUT Benoît, COLINET Pierre, SCHEID Benoît, LAMBERT Pierre. |
At the TIPs (Transfers, Interfaces and Processes) Department of ULB, the main goal of the ongoing research is to develop new theoretical, numerical and experimental methods allowing to understand and predict the behavior of multiphase systems, and to design or optimize industrial processes dedicated to the transformation of matter (mineral, organic or biological) and energy. There are essentially six main research themes : mixing, gas-liquid mass transfer, dynamics of interfaces and their instabilities, wetting, porous media, heat transfer and phase change (evaporation, crystallization, ...). The Department is made of two complementary research units : the Fluid Physics Unit and the Chemical Engineering Unit. The Fluid Physics Unit collaborates with a number of scientific and industrial partners in Belgium, Europe, USA, Israel and Canada, in the frame of several networks funded by the European Commission or by the European Space Agency, and also thanks to support at National level (BELSPO, FNRS, Brussels and Walloon Regions). The team investigates mostly fundamental and/or generic questions, i.e. common to several natural or industrial processes. Studied problems most often involve notions of nonlinear dynamics, physical chemistry (equilibrium and non-equilibrium), statistical mechanics, transport phenomena, applied mathematics, ... The used tools are either theoretical (stability analyses, scaling laws, asymptotic techniques, ...), numerical (commercial or 'home-made' software), or experimental (fluid behavior visualization by interferometry, Schlieren, infrared thermography, ...).
Campus : | Campus du Solbosch |
Location : | Solbosch, square groupe G, bâtiment U, porte B, 5ème étage |
Address : | CP165/67 - av. F.D. Roosevelt , 50 - 1050 Bruxelles |
Phone number : | +32-3-650.35.61 |
Fax : | +32-3-650.29.10 |
E-mail : | Pierre.Coline@ulb.be |
Web site : | https://tips-ulb.be |
Other Site : | http://micromilli.ulb.be/ |
• Teaching engineering sciences
• Teaching of sciences
• Teaching of the natural sciences