Laboratory for Promising Efficient Technologies

Scientific results:

• We have developed a concept of linear arrays of hydrotubines for producing electric power on rivers without building dams.
• A method has been developed controlling a laminar-turbulent transition with the use of distributed suction via a hydraulically smooth permeable surface.
• We have studied the influence of the properties of micro- and nanostructured surfaces on cavitation flow around a model hydrofoil as well as on the efficiency of mixing in  microchannels.
• A method has been proposed a method for intensification of mass exchange with the use of a nanostructured surface in the model of a reactor.
• A new tools has been proposed for forecasting the formation of vortex instability in the flow-through part of a hydroturbine  on the basis of machine learning. 

Education and career development:

• Two Candidate of Sciences dissertations have been prepared and defended.
• Two laboratory case studies have been developed for Novosibirsk State University students.
• We organized the school and conference «All-Russian conference «12th Seminar universities in heat physics and power engineering» (25-27 October 2021, Sochi).
• The Laboratory has developed and delivered the lecture course «Introduction to renewable energy» for master’s degree students of the Novosibirsk State University . The lectures are in free access on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLea77hk3ALWi8nVP2RomvIWiHc814lhvr

Organizational and structural changes:

The computer cluster «Kaskad»  has been created, featuring 25 TFLOPs provided by CPUs and 20 TFLOPs by GPUs.

Collaborations:

S. S. Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, S. A. Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia), University of Calgary (Canada), Technical University of Denmark, Inmold© (Denmark), Kyoto University (Japan), University of Tromsø (Norway), TU Berlin (Germany).