- Author
- Hadjisophocleous, G.
- Title
- Computational Fluid Dynamics: Virtual Reality and High Performance Computing at NRC.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Report
- NRCC 43932, December 17, 1999, 85 p.
- Keywords
- computational fluid dynamics | computers | fire models | combustion | aerodynamics | heat transfer | mass transfer | chemical reactions | codes | computer programs | computer models | ozone | aerosols | ventilation | turbulent combustion | simulation | helicopters | injection
- Identifiers
- Virtual environment Technologies (VET); PHOENICS; TASCflow; FLUENT; High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities; wind engineering
- Abstract
- Many researchers at NRC are involved in the development and application of Computational Fluid Dynamics Models (CFD), as well as the development of tools to visualise the results of CFD models, such as Virtual Environment Technologies (VET). CFD work is done at a number of Institutes such as ICPET, IRC, IAR, IMI, IMD and CHC in areas such as fire modelling and combustion, indoor air quality, wind engineering, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer, multiphase and chemical reacting flows and many others. A variety of CFD models are used for these activities that include commercially available codes, such as PHOENICS, TASCflow and FLUENT, codes from other government departments, as well as software tools developed within NRC. Other institutes such as IIT and IMTI are involved in software engineering development and the use of Virtual Reality caves. Another group of institutes, including SIMS has acquired impressive high performance computing (HPC) facilities for use by the community at large. Although there are many benefits by continuous interaction among these researchers, the number of opportunities fostering such linkages has been limited. The NRC CFD group organized a one-day seminar on CFD, VR and HPC at NRC in order to facilitate interaction among NRC researchers involved in the development and application of CFD models and tools. The purpose of this seminar was to bring together researchers involved in CFD work for exchange of ideas, to increase awareness of work done at NRC at different institutes and to provide a forum to identify areas for inter-institute collaboration. In addition, researchers were informed on progress made in the areas of Virtual Reality and High Performance Computing at NRC. This report contains abstracts of the presentations at the seminar that describe activities at the NRC in the areas of CFD, High Performance Computing and Virtual Environment Technologies (VET).