Strategy
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a mature technology in large enterprises such as Aerospace, Automotive, power generation, petroleum and chemical engineering. The group is now dedicated to extending its expertise to SMEs and novel applications. Thanks to in depth analysis of flow features CFD enables deep understanding and problem solving, accelerated design and optimisation, rapid and economical testing of 'out of the box' ideas, which is appealing to all engineering sectors.
Just as exponential growth of economic computer power in the last decade has enabled to start replacing statistical turbulence models by quasi direct and multiscale computation of turbulent phenomena; sheer computer power will soon break the solids-fluid partition and address continuum mechanics as a whole in a multiphysics/multiscale approach.
Collaborating with major professional CFD vendors, the CFD group aims at expanding the capabilities of computational modelling into new application areas, and meeting numerical challenges posed new frontiers in multidisciplinary modelling and simulation, including :
- Mesh-free methods;
- Multiphase flows;
- Free surface flows;
- Reacting flows;
- Combustion processes;
- Turbulence and acoustics;
- Bio-physiological flows;
- Fluid-structure interaction;
- Flow induced vibrations;
- Plastic, melting and solidifying flows;
- Explosions and impact welding.