PETROBRAS, UFSC/SINMEC and ESSS' main objective for the 
realization of the 2nd Latin American CFD workshop Applied 
to the Oil Industry is to create a discussion forum to 
those interested (users and developers) in Computational 
Fluid Dynamics Software, specially the ones involved with 
applications related to the oil and gas industry. 

Participants and attendees will have the opportunity to 
get in contact with a broad range of oil industry fluid 
flow modeling and be acquainted with on-going research 
projects carried out not only in Brazil, but also in the 
whole Latin America. 

The following topics related to the oil industry are part 
of the Workshop: Risers, Fluidized Beds, Cyclones, 
HydroCyclones, Drilling Technology, Off-Shore Structures, 
Combustion, Distillation Columns, Gas and Oil, Pipelines, 
Reactors, Environmental flows, Reservoir Technology.