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Since 1996 the ASME Fluids Engineering Division
has held free clinics on topics of interest to industry during
the annual Summer Fluids Engineering Meetings. Experts from
government, academia or industry are available to offer free
consulting on specific areas. The specialists help engineers
from industry develop new approaches to their problems. Conversely,
engineers working on fundamental problems are exposed to industrial
problems and often identify new and significant problems of
basic character that deserve attention. It is believed that
such contacts bring about longer-lasting cooperation between
industry and academia.
The clinics are organized as follows.
A separate conference room is reserved for one session during
the meeting and separate tables are set aside, one for each
topic. At each table, a number of experts are available
to discuss industrial problems. Engineers from industry
are invited to present their problems, pose questions and
initiate discussions. Often small groups break away and
thus more than one problem is under discussion at each table.
Some groups continue their discussion privately, after the
end of the formal clinic session.
List
of clinics and clinicians at previous FED Summer Meetings
- Choosing
a Commercial Software Package:
Chris Freitas--Tel: (514) 552-2137,Email: cfreitas@swri.edu.
Many software packages that can solve numerically a variety
of problems in fluids engineering are now commercially
available. Advice will be provided on how to choose the
appropriate package and what to expect from it.
- Measuring
Pressure and Temperature:
Marty Morris--Tel: (314) 232-6939, Email:m232790@mdcgwy.mdc.com
Advice will be provided on how to choose the proper sensors
and how to measure static or dynamic pressure and temperature
in specific industrial settings.
- Measuring
Flow Velocity:
Craig Dutton--Tel: (217) 333-8883, Email:
j-dutton@uiuc.edu. Advice will be given on how to
choose the right sensors, how to rig experiments in a
prototype situation (in-situ) and how to traverse in order
to measure velocity, vorticity, flow rate, and other related
quantities.
- Jet
Mixing and Heat Transfer:
Demetri Telionis--Tel: (540) 231-7492, Email:
telionis@vt.edu. Opinions will be offered on how to
improve industrial settings of jet flows and how to calculate
or measure such flows.
- Automation
of Data Acquisition:
Ralph Budwig--Tel: (208) 885-6579, Email:
rbudwig@uidaho.edu. Suggestions will be made and free
software will be availed to rig systems that would monitor
automatically a fluid flow operation.
- Experimental
Applications of Uncertainty Analysis:
Hugh Coleman--Tel: (205) 890-7202, Email:
coleman@eng1.eb.uah.edu. Help will be provided to
allow engineers to estimate measurement errors.
To
help the organizing committee, members of the Division interested
in participating or offering to organize another clinic
are invited to contact Demetri Telionis - Tel: (540) 231-7492,
Email: telionis@vt.edu.
Interested members of industry are invited to suggest other
clinic topics.
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