What We Do

The group focuses on research in the advancement and application of computational methods and tools to aid the physical understanding of complex engineering fluid-thermal flows. Current applications areas are compact heat exchangers, turbomachinery, and lab-on-a-chip.

Research

Major topics of research are computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, turbulent flows and their modeling, direct, large-eddy, RANS simulations of turbulence, multiphysics microflows, numerical methods, algorithms and discretizations, and high-performance computing and communications.
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Facilities

Our main facility consists of a high-performance Linux cluster of 42 Intel Pentium 4 - 1.70GHz compute nodes. The cluster uses RedHat Linux and Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR). The Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz processor used is a 7th generation x86 processor with the Intel NetBurst microarchitecture. more...

Collaborators

Some of Virginia Tech collaborations include
Center for Turbomachinery & Propulsion Research
Virginia Tech Experimental Computational and Convection Laboratory
HPCFD is also co-working with other research centers outside of VT
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Last Modified Friday May 28 2010