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3 unusual facts about Computational Fluid Dynamics


Aircraft design process

In this phase, wind tunnel testing and computational fluid dynamic calculations of the flow field around the aircraft is done.

Cambridge University Eco Racing

The team used CFD simulations to make minor tweaks to the canopy, and tested the car extensively at a local airfield, before heading out to the next World Solar Challenge in October 2011.

Virtual facility

The VF type of computer simulation allows detailed analysis and prototyping of air flow in the data center by making use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques.


CFD-DEM

In the CFD-DEM, the motion of discrete solids or particles phase is obtained by the Discrete Element Method (DEM) which applies Newton's laws of motion to every particle, while the flow of continuum fluid is described by the local averaged Navier–Stokes equations that can be solved using the traditional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach.

Marussia MR02

Under Symonds' direction, Marussia abandoned the exclusive use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD)—a method developed by former chief designer Nick Wirth—to develop their car, and instead used conventional techniques such as scale models and windtunnels, with CFD used to complement rather than dominate the design process.

Philip L. Roe

Initially he worked in the field of missile aerodynamics and later shifted to CFD and devised the Roe solver for numerical computation of compressible flows with shocks.

Ron Ayers

Through a combination of rocket sled testing at Pendine Sands and extensive computational fluid dynamics testing Ayers was able to develop and refine a shape which would eventually go on to break the sound barrier.

Sod shock tube

The Sod shock tube problem, named after Gary A. Sod, is a common test for the accuracy of computational fluid codes, like Riemann solvers, and was heavily investigated by Sod in 1978.

Vorticity confinement

Vorticity confinement (VC), a physics-based computational fluid dynamics model analogous to shock capturing methods, was invented by Dr. John Steinhoff, professor at the University of Tennessee Space Institute, in the late 1980s


see also

Cebeci

Cebeci–Smith model, a viscosity model used in computational fluid dynamics analysis

KFX

Kameleon FireEx KFX, a computational fluid dynamics simulation program focusing on gas dispersion and fire simulation.

Nick Wirth

Wirth used computational fluid dynamics extensively to design the LMP1 class car.

Shock capturing method

Tannehill, J. C., Anderson, D. A., and Pletcher, R. H., "Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer", 2nd ed.

Silicon Graphics International

On August 15, 2011, the company announced that it had acquired OpenCFD Ltd., developers of open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software.

SU2

Stanford University Unstructured an open-source computational fluid dynamics solver