CFD Research Program
What is CFD?
Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD, involves the numerical solution to the equations governing fluid flow
- The framework for CFD is either the Euler equations for inviscid flow or the Navier-Stokes equations for viscous flow
- CFD solutions often incorporate submodels to account for things like turbulence, chemical reactions, molecular transport, etc.
View the current CFD Research Group Members
Active Research Projects
- Multi-Mesh CFD (U.S. Air Force) [under construction]
- Functional Error Estimation and Adaptation without Adjoints (U.S. Air Force) [under construction]
- Codesign of CFD codes for GPUs [under construction]
- Development of a new structured finite volume CFD code SENSEI [under construction]
Past Research Projects
- Turbulence modeling and simulation (Sandia National Labs)
- Interference Drag Simulation (NASA)
- The Method of Nearby Problems (Sandia National Labs)
- Microscale gas flows (US Army TACOM)
- Verification of CFD codes and solutions (NASA, NETL)
- Extrapolation-based discretization error estimation (Sandia National Labs)
- Uncertainty quantification in scientific computing
- Residual-based discretization error estimation (AFOSR) [under construction]
- Residual-based mesh adaptation (AFOSR) [under construction]
- Aerodynamic shape optimization under uncertainty (U.S. Air Force) [under construction]