Fluid Dynamics

An understanding of fluid dynamics helps racing cars go faster, improves air flows around the home, and will help invent the next generation of medical devices.

Providing a coordinated approach to materials design, creation, characterisation and application.

Nanoparticles of gold too small to be seen with the naked eye have been created in laboratories, but up until now, have never been seen in nature.

Verifying the performance of thickener feedwells is no easy matter, so when thickener manufacturer Outotec wanted an independent, credible analysis of their patented new feedwell design they approached a team of modelling experts – CSIRO researchers working through the Parker Centre for Integrated Hydrometallurgy Solutions.

The fifth international conference on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) will provide a forum to explore the breadth and application of CFD modelling in the process industries.

CSIRO’s research in this area enables decision makers in business and industry to understand their data and to make reliable, productive and informed decisions.

CSIRO mathematicians are developing equations and software to solve critical fluid flow problems for industry and research.

Computational fluid dynamics is a key tool for optimising performance, developing new processes, and improving the design and operation of equipment.

CSIRO delivers science solutions vital to a globally competitive and sustainable energy industry with a primary focus on oil, gas and geothermal energy resources.

A CSIRO designed gas liquid nozzle is making gold production more efficient by reducing oxygen wasted during processing. (0:57)

See a short photoreal animation of fluids that CSIRO mathematicians are achieving using computational fluid dynamics. (0:29)

CSIRO’s Highett laboratories in Melbourne’s south-east is home to advanced processing, materials and infrastructure research, sustainable ecosystems, and CSIRO's Victorian Science Education Centre.

A leading research centre where scientists can interact, exchange information and explore new ideas in partnership with industry to ensure the ongoing sustainability of our resources industries, our environment and our way of life.

CSIRO develops and applies innovative techniques to investigate the movement of hydrocarbons in petroleum reservoirs and sedimentary basins at geological and production time scales by analysing rocks and associated fluids at the micro-scale. (2 pages)

Wealth from Oceans Flagship is conducting advanced research to develop new solutions to biofouling problems for the petroleum industry. (2 pages)

Learn here how Sedsim, software created by CSIRO that determines how sediments change in both time and space, works.