SPIN Centre for Chemical Engineering

Simulation softwares

The SPIN Centre is continuously developing new codes to numerically simulate complex dispersed systems. To run these codes, we have access to our home cluster and national large-scale supercomputing centers.

Thermodynamics and kinetics

  • Phase equilibrium : FactSage, ArXim (mineral species), GasHyDyn (gas hydrates)
  • Gas-solid reaction kinetics : CIN4

Mechanics

  • Fluid :
    • Finite Element Method (FEM) : Comsol, Abaqus
    • Finite Volume Method (FVM) : Fluent, Openfoam
    • Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics (SPH) : OpenSph
    • Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) : Tempo
    • Finite Difference (CV-FD) : ModFlow
  • Particles, atoms :
    • Discrete Element Method (DEM) : Liggghts, PFC3D
    • Molecular Dyanmics (MD) : ReaxFF, Lammps

Process engineering

  • Chemical engineering : ProII
  • Raw material transformation : Usimpack

Miscellaneous

  • Image analysis : Avizo, ImageJ, Matlab toolbox
  • Population balance : Parsival
  • Data control and acquisition : LabVIEW
  • Programming : Matlab, Scilab
  • Programming languages : C++, Python, …

Hardware, computational ressources

  • Home-cluster : 656 cores on 28 nodes, with 2,4 To of RAM
  • Large-scale computing facilities : genci, prace, … (with research proposal)