Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC)

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BARCELONA TECH (UPC)

Centre Tecnològic de Transferència de Calor (CTTC) Escola Superior d’Enginyeries Industrial, Aeroespacial

i Audiovisual de Terrassa ESEIAAT C/ Colon 11 Edifici TR4 08222 Terrassa (Barcelona) Spain

Tel. 34 93 739 81 92 FAX 34 93 739 89 20 cttc@cttc.upc.edu http://www.cttc.upc.edu

Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC)

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BARCELONA TECH (UPC)

• CTTC director founder: Prof. Assensi Oliva

• CTTC director: Prof. Carlos D. Pérez-Segarra

• CTTC codirector and promoter: Prof. Joaquim Rigola

• CTTC personel: 50 persons full time (30 Ph. D. students)

• More than 100 international journal papers in last 10 years

• More than 60 research projects with companies, and within national and EU frameworks in last 10 years

A renowned worldwide research group in Solar Energy ,Thermal Systems and Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

• Refrigeration (vapour compression cycles, absorption refrigerating

systems, compressors, expansion devices, etc.).

• HVAC (ventilation, diffusion of contaminants in buildings,...).

• Active and passive solar systems (solar collectors using

transparent insulation materials, building facades with transparent

layers and ventilation, etc.).

• Concentrated Solar Plants (CSP) (solar tower, storage tanks, etc.)

• Wind Energy (blade design, thermal nacelle, wind farms, etc.)

• Heat exchangers (single – phase and two – phase heat

exchangers, combustion heaters,…).

• Heat storage by liquids and using phase change materials.

• Engine cooling and air conditioning in the automobile and the

aeronautical fields.

• Aerodynamics, etc..

Thermal and fluid dynamic optimization of thermal systems and equipments. Application of the acquired

know-how from the basic studies

Mathematical formulation, numerical resolution and experimental validation of heat and mass

transfer phenomena.

• Natural and forced convection

• Turbulence simulation (RANS, LES, DNS)

• Combustion

• Two-phase flow (VOF, two fluid models)

• Solid-liquid phase change (PCM materials)

• Radiation (surface and participating media)

• Porous media

• Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

(CFD&HT)

• Compressible effect and noise evaluation

• Computational Structure Dynamics (CSD) and Fluid

Structure Interaction (FSI)

• Aerodynamics

• High performance computing: Numerical algorithms and

solvers, parallel computing, etc.

Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC)

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BARCELONA TECH (UPC)

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (CFD&HT): TermoFluids code

Modular object-oriented buildings (rooms, walls, HAM+VOC; IAQ, active virtual control): NEST buildings

Multiscale approach wind energy applications : NEST wind farms

Multiscale approach solar tower receivers: NEST CSP

Thermal Energy Storage Tanks: NEST STES & LTES

Vapor Compression, absorption and adsorption refrigeration and systems NEST cycle

Condensers, evaporators and radiators : NEST heat exchangers

Hermetic reciprocating compressors: NEST compressors

• 3D parallel unstructured code

• DNS, RANS and LES turbulence models

• Dynamic mesh methods for CSD and FSI

• Radiations, combustion

• Multi phase phenomena

• Multi physics modelling

Object Oriented tools for thermal systems and equipments: NEST code

Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC)

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BARCELONA TECH (UPC)

CTTC High Performance Cluster (HPC – JFF)

Vapor compression refrigerating systems (R600a, R134a, CO2, etc.)

Calorimeter compressor test

Fin and tube heat exchangers test loop

Climate chamber

Motor bench

Storage tanks

Flat plate solar collectors

Different types of ventilated façades

Bioclimatic building

• Infiniband DDR 4X network interconnection between

nodes with latencies of 2.25 microseconds with a 20Gbits/s bandwith.

• The system of files allow unified capacities of several Petabytes highly scalable.

• 128 nodes, each node has two Quad-core CPUs, total of 1024 processing cores.

• 40 nodes, each node has 32 Cores, total of 1280 processing cores.

• 40 nodes, each node has 40 Cores, total of 1600 processing cores. Under upgrade proccess

CTTC Experimental facilities

HU

CECRC

CFE

Tube API-ASTM 18 "

BA

EV

Flexible duct

2.5

m

8 m

Separation between the chamber and the

floor with partitions

Difussor

extractable

Shock absorber + weighing machine

CMI

Galvanised tube

Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC)

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BARCELONA TECH (UPC)

• EJEMOD H2020-CS2-101008100 Engine bleed JEt pumps continuous behaviour MODelization. Ref. 101008100. Periode: 2021-

2023 Funding: 184.125€

• TWINECS H2020-CS2-CFP10-2019-01. Toward a Digital Twin ECS and thermal management architecture models: Improvement of

MODELICA libraries. Periode 2020-2022 Funding: 265.750€

• CAROLINA (EIT Urban Mobility E-01545) Titol: Real-time pollution City mAp thRough cOLlaborative sensIng aNd Analysis

(CAROLINA) Periode: 2020 Funding: 118.124€

• ECOSUN (Solar Era NET) Ref: J-02628 Titol: Economic COgeneration by Efficiently COncentrated SUNlight (ECOSun) Periode:

2020-2023 Funding: 145.500€

• RIS3CAT PROJECTS: J-02577/ IU16-01159. BASE 3D- P3 Ink3D Funding: 9.634,4€. J-02623/ IU16-011591. BASE 3D- P4

Hybri3D Funding: 69.866,22€ Periode: 2019-2021. - J02605/ IU16-011703. FUSIO – P2 Funding: 80.331,64€ Periode: 2019-2022.

J-02607/ IU16-011703. FUSIO - P3 Funding: 79.525,10€ Periode: 2019-2022. J-02596/ IU16-011733. INDUSTRIA 4.0- Smart

factory Funding: 88.364,99€ Periode: 2019-2021

• Research project H2020-CS2-CFP07-2017-02 Cleansky project: Funding: 239.070 Euros, Title: A New proTection devIce for FOD

(ANTIFOD), Period: 2018-2020

• Research project ENE2017-88697-R; MEC (Spanish Government); Funding: 151.250 Euros; Title: Algorimtos numéricos

avanzados para la mejora de la eficiencia energética en los sectores eólico y solar-termico: Desarrollo/adaptación a nuevas

arquitecturas computacionales. Period: 2018-2021.

• Research project ENE2015-70672-P; MEC (Spanish Government); Funding: 120.500 Euros; Title: Modelización Multiescala y

Simulación Numérica Directa de Flujos Multifasicos Gas Liquid en Burbujas, Peliculas y Esprays. Period: 2016-2018.

• Research project (H2020-CS2-CFP04-2016-02 CleanSky project), ref. 755556. Funding: 209.300 Euros, Title: ICOPE Innovative

Cooling system for embedded Power Electronics, Period: 2017-2020.

• Research project (H2020-CS2-CFP04-2016-02 CleanSky project), ref. 755517. Funding: 213.125 Euros, Title: MULTIvariable

Environmental Control System, Period: 2017-2020.

• Research project H2020-CS2CFP01-2014-01 Cleansky project: Funding: 323.812 Euros, Title: MALET Development of MODELICA

Libraries for ECS Thermal management architectures, Period: 2016-2019.

• Research project Q00043; Funding: 249.600 euros; Title: "Solar dryer based on Fresnel concentration system (SIROCCO); Period:

2016-2018

Top 10 CTTC - UPC research projects within last 5 years

Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC)

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BARCELONA TECH (UPC)

Most relevant CTTC-UPC advanced computing projects within last years

1. Spanish Supercomputing Network IM-2020-2-0029 & IM-2020-3-0030 "Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation of buoyancy-

driven turbulence in liquid metals", 5 milions of CPU hours (2020-2021)

2. Spanish Supercomputing Network IM-2019-3-0026 & IM-2020-1-0006 "DNS of a vertically falling film", 3.5 milions of

CPU hours (2019-2020)

3. Spanish Supercomputing Network IM-2019-3-0015, IM-2019-2-0014” DNS of mass transfer in turbulent bubbly flows

with competitive chemical reaction kinetics” 4.0 milions of CPU hour. (2019-2020)

4. Spanish Supercomputing Network IM-2019-2-0021 & FI-2019-1-0040 "Exploring nonlinear subgrid-scale heat flux

models for buoyancy driven flows", 2.4 milions of CPU hours (2019)

5. Spanish Supercomputing Network FI-2018-1-0025 “Direct Numerical Simulation of polydispersed bubble swarms on

confined and unconfined domains”. 2.056 milions of CPU hour. (2018)

6. PRACE project "Exploring new frontiers in Rayleigh-Bénard convection" 33.1 millions of CPU hours 2018-2019.

7. PRACE Project ref. 2016153612 PRACE 14th Call. Direct Numerical Simulation of Bubbly Flows with Interfacial Heat

and Mass Transfer.. 18 milions of CPU hours (2017-2018)

8. PRACE Project ref. 2015133120 SANDGRAIN. Understanding the effects of wall-surface roughness on the flow past

circular cylinders. 31 milions of CPU hours (2016-2017)

9. PRACE Project ref. 2014112666 Direct Numerical Simulation of Gravity-Driven Bubbly Flows . 22 milions of CPU hours

(2015)

10.PRACE Project ref. 2012071290 DRAGON - Understanding the DRAG crisis: ON the flow past a circular cylinder from

critical to trans-critical Reynolds numbers . 23 milions of CPU hours (2013-2014)

TF’s business overview

HT&CFD – HPC – Multi-scale – Multi-physics– High Efficiency Systems