Founded in 2019 by Prof. Vahid Niasar, Enerxia Engineering Solutions draws on extensive academic and industrial expertise in porous materials research. With a strong international network, we provide bespoke training, consultancy, and advanced CFD simulations for industrial porous materiasl including energy, water, healthcare, and chemical engineering. We specialise in tailored training programmes, equipping professionals with advanced pore-scale modelling, characterisation, and simulation techniques. Our consultancy services optimise materials and processes, while our CFD simulations—using pore-network modelling, volume-of-fluid methods, and lattice Boltzmann techniques—offer high-fidelity insights into multiphase flow, heat and mass transport, and reactive processes in porous materials. Our expertise spans filtration, membranes, electrochemical systems, enhanced oil recovery, soil remediation, and biomedical porous materials, delivering precision-driven solutions for industry challenges. Prof. Vahid Niasar, CEO and founder, is a leading expert in porous media physics and an hold the chair position at the University of Manchester, Department of Chemical Engineering where he leads the Integrated Multiscale Porous Media Research (IMPRES) group.
Expertise and Services
Development of advanced computational and experimental methods to characterise and simulate processes in porous materials, application of porous media physics to subsurface processes and engineering applications.
R&D consultancy for porous materials
Providing expert consultancy services for the design, analysis, and characterisation of porous materials across a range of industrial applications. Our services support material optimisation, performance evaluation, and process enhancement, leveraging advanced modelling and experimental techniques to deliver tailored solutions for complex porous systems.
Training and education
Bespoke training in pore-network modelling and lattice Boltzmann modelling for a range of engineering applications. Training sessions are available online or in person, depending on circumstances. Each programme covers both the theoretical foundations of flow and transport in porous media, tailored to specific applications, and the practical implementation of algorithms for solving these problems using advanced modelling techniques.
Pore-network modelling
Development of specialist software for simulating single-phase flow, two-phase flow, reactive transport, electrochemical transport, and non-Newtonian fluid flow through porous materials using pore-network modelling. Our simulator is applied to a range of subsurface engineering projects, including carbon capture and storage (CCS), enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and hydrogen storage, as well as electrochemical devices such as PEM fuel cells and redox flow batteries.
Lattice-Boltzmann modelling
In-house development of GPU-accelerated lattice Boltzmann models for simulating single-phase flow, two-phase flow, reactive transport, and wettability alteration in porous materials. These models are applied to a range of subsurface engineering projects, including carbon capture and storage (CCS), enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and hydrogen storage.
X-ray imaging and network extraction
Micro-CT x-ray imaging, reconstruction, segmentation and network extraction of porous materials
Electrochemical modelling
Modelling of electrochemical systems, such as PEM fuel cells, electrolysers, gas diffusion layer, flow field, redox flow batteries using in-house developed simulators
Digital rock
Pore-scale modelling of subsurface applications including CCS, EOR, UHS, petrophysical modelling including capillary pressure curves and relative permeability curves.
Catalysts and reaction modelling
Pore-scale modelling of reactions in catalysis, multi-scale modelling, poisoning.