Emerging Technologies

Hydrogen, energy storage, additive manufacturing and new cooling approaches.

This heading is for fields where the standards have not settled yet. The experience base is thin, which makes analysis more critical rather than less: there is no "last time's design" to compare against.

What we work on

Hydrogen: combustion, storage, leak dispersion and safety
Fuel cells: flow plate design, water management
Energy storage systems and thermal runaway propagation
Additively manufactured heat exchangers and lattice structures
Two-phase and immersion cooling
Thermal management in high power density systems

Our approach

Validating a model is harder in a new field. So we state the uncertainty band openly and say in the report which result needs experimental backing.

Technical notes for this field

All technical notes

Related services

CFD Analysis

Internal and external flow, multiphase, combustion, turbomachinery. From incompressible to supersonic regimes; the approach is chosen to fit the problem.

Thermal Analysis

Conjugate heat transfer (CHT), transient regimes, radiation, thermal management. Temperature and thermal stress from component to system over the duty cycle.

Aerothermodynamics

Aerodynamic heating, thermal protection system (TPS) and ablation modelling, plume interaction and base heating. Flight-phase thermal environments for high-speed vehicles.