External Aircraft Aerodynamics
Aerospace
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multi-Phase Flow, Adaptive Mesh RefinementUC1 simulates steady airflow at transonic speed and computes typical characteristics such as air velocity and direction, pressure and turbulence via the CODA CFD software and the FlowSimulator framework.
Hydrogen Combustion for Propulsion
Aerospace, AutomotiveComputational Fluid Dynamics, Adaptive Mesh Refinement, CombustionThis use case targets the optimization of chevron nozzles to reduce noise emissions using a high-fidelity coupled flow-acoustics simulation approach.
Fully Integrated Aircraft Simulations with Emissions Models
Aerospace Computational Fluid Dynamics, Combustion, Flow controlFully integrated simulations of the aircraft with emissions models conducted with Alya and Sod2D to obtain detailed predictions of aerodynamics and emissions characteristics, including NOx or soot.
High-Fidelity Simulation of Rotating Parts
Automotive, Energy, AerospaceData Analytics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Adaptive Mesh RefinementThis use case aims at performing high-fidelity CFD simulations of a drone rotor with relatively complex geometry. The high-order solver Neko adopting the spectral element method will be used to investigate...
Mitigation of Aeroacoustic Noise
Aerospace, AutomotiveCFD, Computational Aeroacoustics, Artificial IntelligenceThis use case targets the optimization of chevron nozzles to reduce noise emissions using a high-fidelity coupled flow-acoustics simulation approach.
Active Control for Drag Reduction of Transonic Airfoils
Aerospace Computational Fluid Dynamics, VisualizationUC6 is exploring a promising method for drag reduction using quality Direct Numerical Simulations, addressing the challenge of reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions in aviation.
Engineering Design and Digital Twin of the First Wall of a Tokamak Fusion Reactor
Magnetically confined nuclear fusionOptical Simulation, Thermal Modelling, VisualizationFA1 simulates the synthetic signal of an IR camera in nuclear fusion reactors. The workflow comprises three simulations: plasma power deposition to solid wall (field line tracing), temperature response...
Active Flow Control of Aircraft Aerodynamics Including Synthetic Jet Actuators
Aerospace Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Large-Eddy Simulation, CFD This use-case is dedicated to the numerical characterization of the synthetic jet actuator on a full aircraft configuration to better control flow separation over the wings at a low drag penalty. At...
High fidelity simulation of a flow around three-dimensional NACA0012 airfoil with rounded wing tip
AerospaceCFD, Computational Aeroacoustics, VizualizationA flow around three-dimensional wing tip is a relatively complex, industrially relevant test case allowing to study a number of physical phenomena responsible for e.g. generation of the drag on the airplane.
High Fidelity Simulation of Rotating Parts
Aerospace CFD, Adaptive Mesh Refinement, Load BalancingThe aim is to create enable research in the direction of detailed flow field and aeroacoustics analyses of helicopters.
High-Fidelity Simulations of Pollutant Formation of Spray Flames Under Engine-Like Conditions
Aerospace, AutomotiveData Management, Combustion, Multiphysics, In-situ VizualizationThis use-case is dedicated to the modelling of spray flames in practical combustion systems using advance numerical simulations.
Safety Applications: Large Eddy Simulation for Confined Explosions
Aerospace, Automotive, EnergyLarge-Eddy Simulation, CombustionThe aim is to create and optimize an efficient workflow to simulate explosions in confined spaces using large eddy simulation.