1. Modelado de fenómenos de transporte aplicado al almacenamiento de energías sostenibles 2. Modelado del almacenamiento de líquidos criogénicos 3. Modelado con dinámica de fluidos computacional de sistemas electroquímicos con fases fluidas

Current:

MSc. students in co-supervision for FONDECYT INICIACION 11241050
1.1. Juan Cárdenas: Modelling compositional stratification in liquid air energy storage tanks, expected graduation 2026-1
1.2. Miguel Ponce de León: Modelling conjugate heat transfer during the evaporation of cryogenic liquids in storage tanks, expected graduation 2026-2
1.3. Antonia Camilo: Multiphysics CFD modelling of the evaporation of liquid hydrogen in storage tanks, expected graduation 2026-1

Co-supervision of MSc. students - Open Seed Fund 2024, Royal Society Exchanges and electrochemical engineering projects
2.1. Lucas Ortiz: Optimising electrolyte conversion in flow-by channels of redox flow batteries, expected graduation 2025-2
2.2. Maite Arce: Dynamic modelling of a reversible solid oxide fuel cell plant under varying duty cycles, expected graduation 2025-2
2.3. Joaquín Barros: Modelling the electrochemical mass transfer in polymeric membranes within vanadium redox flow batteries, expected graduation 2026-1

Co-supervision of MSc. students - renewable energy storage
3.1 Kieran Conradie: A realistic one-dimensional heat transfer model of hydrogen charge-discharge cycles in storage tanks with porous adsorbents. Expected graduation 2026-1

Co-supervision of MSc. students - Sustainable Mining
3.1 Vicente Casas: Modelling acid mine drainage in tailings at Embalse Carén. Expected graduation 2026-1
3.2 Carlos Ullrich: Multiphase reactive CFD modelling of Convertidor Teniente copper concentrate smelting furnaces. Expected graduation 2026-1

Completed:
1. Co-supervisor of Aimee Burton in her Applied Mathematics and Geoscience MSc. Imperial College London (2024).

Free activities orientated to undergraduate and postgraduate students

Intermediate OpenFOAM Workshop December 2024 at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (27th of December 2024):
This ambitious version of the workshop was focused on teaching OpenFOAM users how to implement a solver of flow in porous media from scratch. Additionally, we taught how to implement mass transfer in porous media by including functionalities of a different solver into the porous media flow solver. We had 8 attendants. The contents of the workshop have been made publicly available at https://github.com/openfoam-ICL-UC/openfoam_intermedio_ES.

OpenFOAM for Chemical Engineering 2024 at Imperial College London - (17th and 18th of July 2024):
Co-organised with Catalina Pino Muñoz, we delved deep into the world of OpenFOAM for chemical engineering. With 17 attendees in person and 17 online on day 1, and 14 in person and 6 online on day 2, our mix of PhD and MSc students had an enriching experience both in learning and networking. We taught them the OpenFOAM workflow, utilising ParaView for advanced visualization, analysing complex transport phenomena, exploring 3-D forced convection heat transfer and time-dependent scenarios. The material has been made available for the public at: https://zenodo.org/records/12773057.

OpenFOAM for Chemical Engineering 2023 at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (19th and 20th of December 2023):
This is the first version of an OpenFOAM workshop that has the objective to train undergraduate, MSc and PhD students in Chemical Engineering and related disciplines to model and simulate realistic problems where mass and energy transfer are dependent of velocity profiles. OpenFOAM is an open-source CFD toolbox that has a steep learning curve. However, its computational efficiency, zero cost and possibility to customise the solver has positioned it as the option of choice for research in transport phenomena modelling. Accurate CFD models can accelerate the road to development for Chile and the energy transition globally. 25 attendants participated on the first day, and 15 on the second day. The material has been meda publicly available at https://github.com/openfoam-ICL-UC/openfoam_intro_ES