Graham V. Candler, Fellow

Simulation of Reacting Flows

This group has continued their research in the numerical simulation of high-temperature reacting flows. This work has several applications: supersonic flow control using laser energy deposition; generation of atmospheric-pressure air plasmas for materials processing and flow control; the study of how the Navier-Stokes equations fail in highspeed, low-density flows; the study of microscale aerodynamics; and the analysis of turbulent reacting flows. These researchers use a suite of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes developed for parallel supercomputers. These codes use implicit time integration to reduce the computational cost, and have been optimized for the IBM and SGI computers. This group also uses an efficient parallelized direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) code for low-density flow simulations for comparison with the continuum CFD simulations. This work is leading to an improved understanding of how chemical reactions and fluid motion interact in a variety of technologically relevant applications.

Research Group and Collaborators

Iain D. Boyd, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Charles H. Campbell, Graduate Student Researcher
Marie-Claude Druguet, Research Associate
Jo-Einar Emblemsvag, Graduate Student Researcher
Victoria Interrante, Faculty Collaborator
Heath Johnson, Graduate Student Researcher
Ramnath Kandala, Graduate Student Researcher
Ivan Marusic, Faculty Collaborator
Ioannis Nompelis, Graduate Student Researcher
Krish Sinha, Research Associate
Pramod Subbareddy, Graduate Student Researcher
Ryuta Suzuki, Undergraduate Student Researcher
Wen Lan Wang, Research Associate