Computational Fluid Dynamics Center

Research Projects

Application of CFD to Simulate Fundamental Physics

•     Aerodynamics of Iced Airfoils, NASA Glenn Research Center.
•     CFD Analysis of UAV Splashdown.  Lockheed Martin.
•     Film and Internal Cooling In Gas Turbine Engine, GE, DOE.
•     Gas Turbine Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer, DOE.
•     Heat Transfer Issues in Gas Turbine Electric Power Generation.  DOE.
•     Low Temperature Diesel Engine Combustion Technology for Low Emissions, John Deere.
•     Modeling Study on Nox Reduction Strategies for Biodiesel, Iowa Energy Center.
•     Rotorcraft Aerodynamics, Army.
•     Turbine Cooling Issues.  Pratt & Whitney.

CFD Algorithm Development

•     Efficient Algorithms for Complex Chemical Kinetics.
•     Helicopter Quieting, DARPA.
•     High-Order Spectral Volume Method for Navier-Stokes Equations, DOE.
•     Implementation of Local Mesh Refinement to KIVA-4 for Engine Spray Simulations Using Unstructured Mesh, Ford Motor Company.
•     Implicit and P-Multigrid Solution Approach for High-Order Methods, AFOSR.
•     Lattice Boltzmann Method for Compressible Flows, NSF.

Multi-Scale And Multi-Disciplinary Research

•     CFD Analysis Of Low-Density Polyethylene Reactors
•     ITR:  Liquid Atomization - Simulation, Discovery, and Control.  NSF.
•     Multi-Environment CFD Micromixing Models
•     Thermoelectric Conversion of Waste Heat To Electricity In An IC Engine Powered Vehicles, DOE.

Turbulence and Physical Modeling

•     Bypass Transition (DNS and Theory), NASA.
•     Dispersion in Stratified Flow, NSF.
•     Stochastic Models For Full PDF Simulation Of Turbulent Mixing
•     Trailing Edge Heat Transfer (Unsteady RANS), GE Aircraft Engines.