Objectives
The design of fans has evolved to meet the ever-increasing demands for higher-efficiency machines, combined with the requirements for lower noise and high availability. In addition, many fans are now being used in safety-related applications, such as smoke control in buildings and underground spaces in the event of a fire. Variable speed is now more common, leading to some additional design problems, and many existing users are revisiting their plant, looking at ways to upgrade the fans. The use of numerical simulation techniques is also becoming an established part of aerodynamic design processes.
This event will be a forum for fan and system designers, manufacturers and operators, with the aim of improving our understanding of fans and their system interaction. The conference combines the next in the series of IMechE international conferences on Fan Technology and the CETIAT/CETIM International Symposium on Fan Noise.
Additionally, the increasing importance of theoretical methods and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in non-aerospace applications is recognised, with the resulting Fan 2012 International Conference having three separate, but complementary, tracks:
Track One:
- Fan design for improved efficiency
- Impact of technology on fan design
- Compliance with legislation and regulations
- Operation and maintenance aspects
- Motors and drives
- Critical fans for cooling applications
- Plant enhancement and upgrading
- Fans and system effect
Track Two:
- Fan noise generation mechanisms
- Experimental methods for noise source location
- Noise prediction and analysis
- Design of low-noise fans
- Fan noise control by passive and active methods
- Optimisation of fan installation to reduce noise
- Sound quality applied to fans
Track Three:
Theoretical & Numerical Methods
- Influence of CFD on impeller aerodynamics
- Validation of CFD and CAA computer codes
- Three-dimensional CFD methods
- Unsteady flows and LES
- Optimisation of methods and design
- Inverse design
