IoE-SCPP workshop of liquid metal batteries (LMBs) for grid scale energy storage, being organised in collaboration with researchers from the Dept. of Magneto-hydro-dynamics at HZDR, Dresden, Germany, on 17th and 18th January, 2025 in VMCC room no. 21.

The detailed schedule is here . An inspiring & eloquent TED talk on liquid metal batteries is by Prof. Sadoway at MIT.  LMBs have been commercialized by their spinoff, AmBri but their remain many open issues before they are widely adopted.

A couple of workshop highlights:

(a) Short workshops on Day 2 on multiphysics modeling using open source CFD codes, OpenFOAM (FVM) and SFEMaNS (spectral FEM) codes by PhD experts.

(b) Two talks are by industry experts from Tata consultancy services research, Aditya Birla research centres.

Registration (online) is free but mandatory on this link.