An Overview of ParCFD activities at Delft University of Technology

Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of research that is carried out at Delft University of Technology and involves parallel computational fluid dynamics. It presents work of those groups that are or have been active at the yearly ParCFD conferences which indicates that these groups focus to some extent on purely parallel issues as well. At Delft University of Technology, parallel computational fluid dynamics is an ongoing research activity within several research groups. Typically, this research is set up and hosted within departments. For this purpose, they use centrally supported facilities, most often only operational facilities. In rare cases, central support is given as well for developing purposes. Parallel computational fluid dynamics is on its way to become a basic tool in engineering sciences at least at Delft University of Technology; the broadness of the examples given by the chapter illustrates this. The chapter has also tried to outline the directions in which the developments are taking place. Computations with millions of unknowns over moderate time intervals are nearly a day-to-day practice with some of the more explicit-oriented codes. Tools have been developed for post- processing the enormous amounts of data.