Ascomp connecting science and technology

Active Research

2013. Review paper in the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering.
2013. Review paper in the Journal of Micro- and Nano- Manufacturing.
2012. Turbulent mechanisms of bubble plumes in the International Journal of Multiphase Flows.
2012. Turbulence structure and interaction with steep breaking waves in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
2012. ASCOMP publications in leading scientific journals.

Apr 2011. ASCOMP publishes report on predicting oil-spills in deep sea using TransAT.
Mar 2011. ASCOMP awarded grant by the Swiss SFB for the COST Project TU08082.
Dec 2010. ASCOMP wins the Swiss KTI /CTI Innovation ‘Cheque’ for its research on CO2 hydrate slurries.
Sep. 2010. ASCOMP develops LEIS model on droplet entrainment for TEPCO.
July 2010 - 2015, ASCOMP is a part of of the DOE-CASL project led by Oak Ridge national Laboratories. Read more.
February 2011, a short course on the "Modelling and Computations of Multiphase Flows" in Zürich. Read more.
Sep. 2010, ASCOMP publishes a detailed report on electronics cooling using magnetic crystal materials
Oct. 2010, ASCOMP presents the first detailed report on its activities on single-phase turbulence for THINS project

Consulting

ASCOMP is contracted by KEPCO, South Korea, to help understand the effect of high-speed steam jets in suppression water pools.
SUBSEA Norway, uses ASCOMP's plume model TransAT-SPILL to predict subsea oil and gas spills in North-Sea and west African wells.
ASCOMP successfully completed a 12-month consulting project on the sealing of subsea oil Blow-Out Preventer in the US.
ASCOMP recently finished an 8-month consulting on hydrate plugging of pipelines in subsea conditions.
ASCOMP completed work on the vortexing phenomena in metallurgical process.
ASCOMP awarded a project on the condensing of jets at the Korean IRWST nuclear power plant.
ASCOMP recently finished consulting on the sealing of subsea oil Blow-Out Preventer.
Ascomp awarded project to explore deep sea plume leakage and its rise to the sea surface.
ASCOMP helps Ciba Switzerland & BASF Germany review the design of Droppo towers.
ASCOMP helps dimension oil separators and oil production headers.
ASCOMP helps EMPA Switzerland understand catalytic reaction in complex foamy structures for automotive exhausts.
ASCOMP helps KEMA Holland understand and prevent the mechanisms of black-powder deposition in gas pipelines (Northstream case)
ASCOMP helps TOTAL France understand the turbulent dispersion of deep-sea, multiphase oil jets
ASCOMP delivers its report to BP UK on the state-of-the-art in modeling dispersed multiphase flows in vertical oil risers.

TransAT New Releases

Version TransAT-2.3.0: Combined GUI for Mesh and Physics Setup
Version TransAT-2.2.9: New EASM turbulence models included now, up to cubic
Version TransAT-2.2.8: Phase-field model included now in the multi-physics solver
Version TransAT-2.2.6: Conjugate heat transfer for nucleate boiling