Area of Interest 3- COMPUTATIONAL ENERGY SCIENCES: DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-PHASE FLOW MODELING FOR POLYDISPERSED SYSTEMS ANDUNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS FOR ADVANCED POWER PLANTS AND WATER MANAGEMENTSYSTEMS

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Area of Interest 3- COMPUTATIONAL ENERGY SCIENCES: DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-PHASE FLOW MODELING FOR POLYDISPERSED SYSTEMS ANDUNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS FOR ADVANCED POWER PLANTS AND WATER MANAGEMENTSYSTEMS: Note: This descriptive area provides an overview of Area of Interest 3 only. YOU MUST READ THE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT DOCUMENT FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, EVALUATION CRITERIA, AND HOW TO PREPARE AN APPLICATION UNDER AN AREA OF INTEREST. Please scroll to the bottom of the page to access the Funding Opportunity Announcement. Area of Interest 3- (3) COMPUTATIONAL ENERGY SCIENCES DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-PHASE FLOW MODELING FOR POLYDISPERSED SYSTEMS AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS FOR ADVANCED POWER PLANTS AND WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS The Computational Energy Sciences (CES) program at NETL covers the following primary work areas: Multiphase Flow Research, Process and Dynamic Systems Modeling, Device Scale Modeling and Visualization Research (http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies /coalpower/advresearch/ces.html ). Awards made under this topic are expected to be aligned with NETL's research so that the results can be integrated into existing and ongoing research under the CES program. A) The Multiphase Flow Research area is specifically targeted in this procurement. Proposals are sought for the development of continuum models of gas-solids flows that describes suspended solids with a distribution in size or density or both also referred to as polydispersed systems. The constitutive models are required for granular stresses and gas-solids drag. The granular stress models are expected to be extensions of granular kinetic theory applicable to several discrete particle types or to a particle size/density distribution. The ideal program will be one in which an entity or team propose research work: on the development of theory for polydispersed systems; the coding of the theory into advanced computational models that integrate with MFIX; the gathering of experimental data from physical systems and/or molecular dynamics simulations at a physical scale on the order of 10 particle diameters or less and a time scale faster than the particle - particle collision time on the solids velocity, the gas velocity and the solids fraction; and the validation of the models. Software that is developed under this topic must be readily integrated into existing MFIX software (http://www.mfix.org/). Applications submitted in response to this topic must be willing to adhere to open source software licensing to enable this integration of code into the MIFX software framework. B) Proposals are sought for the development, implementation, and demonstration of enhancements to the existing APECS CAPE OPEN (Advanced Process Engineering Co-Simulator Computer Aided Process Engineering) compliant uncertainty analysis framework including the use of stochastic simulations for automatic generation of reduced order models (ROMs) and automatic grid refinement for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models used in APECS process/CFD co-simulations. The proposed work should also provide a process synthesis capability in the APECS optimization framework by implementing CAPE-OPEN compliant Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) technology. To address the critical link between energy generation and water use in fossil energy-fired power plants, the ideal program will be one in which an entity or team proposes a phased development and application approach to (1) establish a credible water system modeling methodology, (2) gather water usage, reuse, recovery, and treatment data, (3) deliver an APECS co-simulation-based power plant water management tool, (4) generate power plant and water network co-simulations for baseline coal-fired cases, (5) evaluate technologies developed under the DOE Power Plant Water Management R D Program, (6) develop and apply high-fidelity equipment models in APECS for novel water management technologies, (7) apply stochastic modeling and multi-objective optimization for optimizing power plant performance and water usage using APECS, and (8) develop and apply the APECS MINLP framework for synthesizing optimal, integrated power generation and water management systems. Applications submitted in response to this topic must be willing to adhere to CAPE-OPEN Standards (www.colan.org) for integration of software.