Abercus News
Abercus presents at FABIG on managing fire and explosion hazards in a low oil price environment
Abercus to present at the forthcoming UKELG meeting at Spadeadam
Abercus principal consultant Prankul Middha will present a review of hydrogen explosion modelling at the forthcoming UKELG meeting at Spadeadam in October. UKELG, the UK explosion liaison group, is an important forum for the exchange of information and ideas relating...
Abercus sponsors the Subsea UK evening meeting in MK
Abercus is sponsoring the Subsea UK evening meeting in Milton Keynes in October. What link does Abercus have with Milton Keynes, you may ask? Well, the answer is that the team at Abercus first worked together in Newport Pagnell, just on the other side of the M1...
Abercus presents at the NAFEMS World Congress in Stockholm
Abercus presented at the NAFEMS World Congress in Stockholm in June. Our paper presents the motivation for and design of our JET (job execution tool) software, which was originally developed by Abercus directors Steve Howell and Simon Feven in 2002 and is one of the...
Abercus presents at the IMechE evening meeting in Aberdeen An introduction to modelling explosions using CFD, and how to use the predictions to design for blast
Abercus principal consultant Steve Howell presented at the IMechE (Aberdeen branch) evening meeting in May. His paper focussed on the use of computational fluid dynamics for simulating hydrocarbon explosions, and on how to use the CFD predictions to derive blast loads...
Abercus presents at the FLACS user group meeting in Bergen
Abercus principal consultant Prankul Middha presented at the FLACS User Group (FLUG) meeting in Bergen in May. His paper focussed on the importance of verification and validation, the development of consistent best practice for CFD modelling, and some issues relating...
Abercus presents at the FABIG UK Technical Meeting: New Insights into Risk Assessment Democratisation of the probabilistic methodology for determining structural design loads for blast
Steve Howell and Prankul Middha presented at the FABIG UK Technical Meeting in Aberdeen/London. Their paper, which focused on the democratisation of the probabilistic explosion methodology for determining structural design loads for blast, is available for download...
Back to basics FEA and CFD don’t have to break the bank, especially with open source tools now entering the market
It is increasingly necessary for companies to collaborate and innovate to reduce capital and operating expenditures, especially in this current lower oil price environment. Now is the time to invest in research and development to deliver improved performance and...
The analysis management edition of Benchmark magazine – ISO 9001 accreditation from an SME perspective
Abercus contributed to the analysis management edition (July 2016) of NAFEMS Benchmark magazine. The article, which considered the implementation and accreditation of ISO 9001 from the perspective of a small/medium enterprise, is available for download here. NAFEMS is...
Abercus presents at the SUT (Society for Underwater Technology) evening meeting in Aberdeen Reducing CAPEX and OPEX in the subsea sector through the use of advanced engineering simulation
Abercus presented at the SUT evening meeting in Aberdeen in June. Our paper is available for download here: pdf (without animations) - 3Mb, ppsx (with animations) - 30Mb. As part of the paper, several examples of the application of CFD to the subsea sector are...
Abercus presents at the NAFEMS UK conference – achieving ISO 9001 accreditation and the role of the NAFEMS QSS, from the perspective of a small consultancy
Abercus presented at the NAFEMS UK conference in Telford in June. Our paper, which focussed on our ISO 9001 accreditation and the role of the NAFEMS QSS, is available for download here. It is hoped that by sharing Abercus’ experiences, other companies may be...
Abercus presents at the FLACS user group meeting On the use of one-to-one coupling for probabilistic assessments, coupling at the dispersion‑explosion and the explosion‑structural FEA stages of the assessment
Abercus Technical Director Steve Howell presented at the FLACS User Group (FLUG) meeting in Bergen in June. His paper focussed the use of one-to-one coupling for probabilistic assessments – coupling at the dispersion-explosion and the explosion-structural FEA stages...