Theme
The landscape of fan design is rapidly evolving to meet the escalating demands for higher efficiency, reduced noise levels, and increased availability. Moreover, with many fans now serving safety-related applications, the need for innovation has never been more pressing. The advent of connectivity and digital services is catalyzing the emergence of novel business models, while the prevalence of variable speed introduces new design challenges for plant upgrades.
In this dynamic environment, numerical simulation techniques are becoming indispensable tools in aerodynamic design processes.
Fan 2025 offers a unique platform for fan and system designers, manufacturers, and operators to come together and advance our understanding of fans and their intricate system interactions.
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. Fan 2025 will follow a three-track format. Each track is separate, but complimentary.
This three-day conference will include keynote lectures and technical presentations. The technical presentations will be organised as three technical tracks, focusing on fan noise, fan aerodynamics, fan applications and systems. All types of fans, such as those used in industrial process, HVAC, electronic equipment, household appliances, automotive and traction fall within the scope of the conference. Conversely, high speed fans in aeronautical propulsion applications will not be included.
Track 1:
- Aerodynamic fan noise generation mechanisms
- Structure-borne noise
- Dynamic forces transmission
- Experimental methods for characterizing noise sources
- Noise source localization
- Design for low-noise fans
- Noise prediction by analytical/numerical models
- Optimization of fan installation to reduce noise
- Psychoacoustics
- Fan integration in HVAC unit
Track 2:
- Aerodynamic design methods
- Practical design examples of new generation industrial fans
- Advancements in traditional testing of fan aerodynamics
- Experimental techniques and computational methods for the detailed analysis of fan aerodynamics
- Artificial intelligence and aerodynamic performance optimization techniques
- Improving Fan Sizing/Selection
- Unsteady phenomena and flow non-uniformities in actual fan operation
- Effects of flow characteristics and geometrical non-similarities affecting fan scaling law
- New design and analysis methods based on Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning
Track 3:
- Compliance with legislation and regulations
- Harmonization of fan standards worldwide
- Connectivity technologies
- Digital services and new business models
- Predictive maintenance
- Operation and maintenance considerations
- Motors and drives
- Specialized fans for niche applications
- Retrofit and upgrading existing fan installations
- Fan system effect
- Energy related topics (e.g. air curtain effectiveness)
- Case studies (e.g. tunnel ventilation)