Researchers are about to move beyond several fundamental questions in partial differential equations (PDEs) and Euler’s remarkable equation for an incompressible fluid will play a central role in this. The EU-funded FLUSPEC project has set out to prove that the curvature of the interface blows up in finite time due to the appearance of kinks of controlled geometry.

Process intensification aims to dramatically improve processes and achieve more compact, cleaner, safer and more energy-efficient technologies. Catalysis is critical to chemical production and using two catalysts in one reactor has the potential to achieve many of the goals of process intensification. However, if there is a mismatch between supply and demand – when the first reaction proceeds more quickly than the second is able to use the products as reactants – the potential of these tandem catalytic processes is not realised.

Investigador: ANDREU LLOBERA ADAN
Centro: INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRONICA DE BARCELONA