CFD Webinar: Computational Modelling of Flow Induced Vibrations (FIV) – Industry Practices

Mike Lewis has spent the last 9 years involved with Flow Induced Vibration.  He chairs the current Multiphase FIV SIG having previously managed the Xodus led Multiphase FIV Joint Industry Project.  Mike has been applying CFD to a wide range of scenarios from Combustion to Shoe Ventilation for over 25 years; he has mainly focussed on Oil and Gas and Automotive applications.  Mike currently combines managing FTS Engineering Answer Ltd. with working for Xodus Group.  Previously, he has worked for the CD-adapco and UK Health and Safety Executive.  Mike holds a PhD from Cranfield University in applying CFD to Fire Spread Modelling.

Stefan Belfroid holds a senior scientist position at the TNO department of Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics. He holds a MSc in Applied physics (1995) and a MSc in Computational Mechanics (1997). After working for 4 years at Stork he now works for 19 years at TNO. He is active in the fields of dynamic multiphase flow (specializing in slugging and liquid loading in wells) and in flow induced pulsations and vibrations (specifically on the topics of shear layer instabilities at bluff bodies, sidebranches and on riser induced pulsations. The last years he is activity involved in the study of multiphase flow induced forces. The work is mainly done for the Oil & Gas industry and for CCUS projects.

Jiansheng or Jason is a Research Fellow in Computational Physics at Imperial College London. He has background training in thermal engineering at Chongqing University. He obtained his PhD in particle technology from the Glasgow Caledonian University in 2004. He is the lead developer of the solid mechanics code, Solidity (http://solidityproject.com). He has >10 years’ experience in the Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method  and applications in Coastal, Minerals, and Particle Technology.

Lyes has been developing in-house codes for numerical simulations of multiphase flows by using the front-tracking and domain decomposition methods. The solver can run on a variety of computer architectures ranging from laptops to supercomputers, including the modules for the flow interactions with the immersed solid objects, contact line dynamics, species and thermal transport with phase changes. Some relevant disciplines include the falling liquid film, droplet impact, direct numerical simulation, multiphase flow, parallel or distributed processing, interface dynamics and front tracking, atomization, and microfluidics.

Dr. Pontaza joined Shell in 2006 and is currently a Principal Engineer and the Shell subject matter expert for Fluid-Structure Interaction & Computational Fluid Dynamics.  He has BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas, USA) and MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).  Dr. Pontaza has authored over 40 journal papers and conference papers on numerical methods for fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction.   He was the recipient of the 2004 Robert J. Melosh medal for best paper on Finite Element Analysis. 

Bharat Tulsyan is a Staff Consultant at Wood Plc. and is part of the CFD and Flow Assurance Team within Wood. He is an Aerospace Engineer by training and has a Bachelor’s Degree (Dual degree) from Indian Institute of Technology Madras  and Master’s Degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has performed undergraduate and graduate research in the areas of thermo-acoustic instability and high fidelity numerical solver development. Mr. Tulsyan has 10 years of professional experience in the Oil and Gas Industry and has been involved in multiple major capital projects, for assets around the world. He has successfully executed and led multiple specialized projects related to CFD analysis, Flow Assurance, Dynamic Process Simulations and Process Safety

Olivier Macchion is Senior Specialist Engineer at TFMC's Computational Analysis group, with a PhD in fluid mechanics, from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden). Recent publications include Measurement of Low Frequency Vibration in Subsea Piping Using ROV Video Analysis, Andries van Wijhe (TNO), Lennert Buijs (TNO), Lezsek Stachyra (TFMC), Olivier Macchion (TFMC), OMAE2020-18579 2020; Benchmarking of CFD For Assessment of Flow Induced Vibrations in Subsea Flexloops, A. Sanchis (FMC), O. Macchion (FMC), A. Suleng (FMC), S. Orre (Statoil), FIV 2016; Assessment of pulsations levels within a non-straight closed branch on a manifold, O. Macchion (FMC), J. Smeulers (TNO), K. Hunn (BP), FIV 2016;

Until recently, Tim Lockett held the post of Advisor for Multiphase Modelling in bp’s central engineering function, completing 11 years with this team and 31 years serving the oil & gas industry.  In addition to internal focus supporting bp’s projects and operations, Tim was able to Chair the Transient Multiphase Flow consortium (led by Imperial College London) and was a member of the Technical Advisor Committee for the BHR Multiphase Production Technology conference series.

Tim is a Chemical Engineer by degree and PhD from Imperial College, London. He started his career as a research engineer at the UKAEA Research Centre (Harwell, UK) applying engineering scale facilities to sand management issues of erosion, sand transport and sand detection. In 2003 Tim joined SPT Ltd as Principal Consultant applying the OLGA simulator to design situations and to solve operational issues.