Our Research Projects

CFD for reacting and high-speed flows

This is a project which is currently making use of HPC facilities at Newcastle University. It is active.

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Project Description

With the need for the development of novel hydrogen-compatible combustion devices, physical understanding of the flame behaviour and the identification of thermoacoustic instabilities at relevant combustor operating conditions for hydrogen-air swirl flames will help speed up the development of hydrogen combustors, in line with the UK government's net-zero vision. This research will offer potential benefits to industry and contribute to the progress of science in the areas of fluid dynamics, turbulence and net-zero combustion.


Software or Compute Methods

Senga-2 is a high order finite difference FORTRAN code used for turbulent reacting flow simulations (url: https://github.com/senga-ops/SENGA-OPS)

HAMISH is a high order finite volume Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) code for reacting and high-speed flows which is written in FORTRAN and also uses CUDA-FORTRAN for executing on GPUs (url: https://hamishcode.com)

Code_Saturne is an industrial CFD code developed by EDF energy for simulating thermofluid problems encountered in industry. It is a C/C++ and FORTRAN code. (url: https://www.code-saturne.org)