1. What is Global Warming? Temperature Rise (K) Year
Increasing Green House Gases:
Humidity, CO2, Methane, NOx,
Sox etc.
Infra Red Absorption into
Green House Gases and
on the Earth surface
Preserving Heat in the Air
Temperature Rise in the Air
Earth
I.R.:Infra Red
I.R. Absorption
Sun
Air
I.R.
Radiation
Temperature Rise (K)
Year

2. Free surface mass transport is affecting CO2 concentrations
Missing Sink Problem over past 30 years
Measured atmospheric CO2 increase (34 ppm)
- Spent Fossile Fuel emissions (61 ppm)
= Missing Sink(-27 ppm) ?
Turbulent Heat and Mass transfer across Free Surface ?
Wind flow
CO2 absorption at the turbulent free-surface deformed by the shear wind, by means of direct numerical solution procedure for a coupled gas-liquid flow
Free surface contour - wind-driven calculation

3. Coherent Structures in Wind-driven Turbulent Free Surface Flow
Water
Atmospheric Pressure Contour Surface (Green)
High Speed Gas Side Regions (Brown)
High Speed Water-Side Regions (Blue)
Streamwise Instantaneous Velocity (Color Section)

4. Some Common Aspects between Global Warming Problem and Fusion Nuclear Technology from the Perspective of Thermofluid Research

5. Inkjet Printer Nozzle Study, (funded by Xerox)
Ejection of ink into air from a nozzle 1/2 cosine wave impulse
10 microsecond impulse, 32x128 mesh size density ratio 1:1000
domain size 60x240 microns
“Accurate and Robust Methods for Variable Density Incompressible Flows
with Discontinuities,” by Rider, W.J., Kothe, D.B., Puckett, E.G., Aleinov, I.D., ICASE

6. Metal Casting Applications
“Physical and mathematical modeling of
melt flow, heat transport and
solidification in electromagnetic casting,”
J.W. Evans, U.C. Berkeley,
Supported by Reynolds Metals Corp. (Alcoa)
Stability of a melt surface under a
magnetic field
Electromagnetic Stirring
Microstructure of cast metal
Melt flow, meniscus support, heat transport

7. Horizontal belt strip casting
“Damping mechanisms of perturbations
in electromagnetically braked horizontal
film flows,” Lofgren, H.B., Akerstedt, H.O.,
Lulea Univ. of Technology, Sweden
Thickness distributions for various
Hartmann Numbers
Smoothly increasing film thickness control via MHD

8. Regions flattened by interaction with neighboring jet

9. 1 ms
0 ms
2 ms
57 ms

11. Oscillating Jets to form Liquid Pocket for IFE Chambers