Projects: Engineering

ALCF projects cover many scientific disciplines, ranging from biology and physics to materials science and energy technologies. Filter ongoing and past projects by allocation program, scientific domain, and year.

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 90 million Core-Hours

LES to Characterize Shock Boundary Layer Interaction in a 3D Transonic Turbofan

PI Umesh Paliath, GE Global Research

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 90 million Core-Hours

Adaptive DES of a Vertical Tail/Rudder Assembly with Active Flow Control

PI Kenneth E. Jansen, University of Colorado Boulder

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 47 million Core-Hours

Multiscale Physics of the Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

PI Hussein Aluie, University of Rochester

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 15 Million Core-Hours

Adjoint Based Optimization via Large Eddy Simulation of a Fundamental Turbine Stator-­Rotor

PI Qiqi Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 25 Million Core-Hours

Computational Study of Cycle-­to-­Cycle Variation in Dual-­Fuel Engines

PI Ravichandra Jupudi, General Electric Global Research

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 25 Million Core-Hours

Unraveling Silent Owl Flight to Develop Ultra-­Quiet Energy Conversion Machines

PI Anupam Sharma, Iowa State University

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 72.1 Million Core-Hours

Multiphase Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Flows

PI Igor Bolotnov, North Carolina State University

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

Convective Turbulence in Liquid Gallium and Sodium

PI Janet Scheel, Occidental College
The field displays the complex dynamics of the velocity field

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 150 Million Core-Hours

Direct Numerical Simulation of Compressible, Turbulent Flow

PI Jonathan Poggie, Purdue University
Sample slice of the instantaneous density field

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 72 Million Core-Hours

Direct Numerical Simulations and Robust Predictions of Cloud Cavitation Collapse

PI Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich
Initiation of cloud cavitation collapse for 50,000 bubbles

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

Adaptive Detached Eddy Simulation of a High Lift Wing with Active Flow Control

PI Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado, Boulder
Vorticity contours colored by speed from a detached eddy simulation of flow around a high lift multi-element wing at maximum lift

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Large Eddy Simulations of Combustor Liner Flows

PI Anne Dord, GE Aviation
Turbulent flow going through a multi-hole coupon geometry

Award Theta ESP
Domain Engineering

Extreme Scale Unstructured Adaptive CFD: From Multiphase Flow to Aerodynamic Flow Control

PI Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado Boulder
Isosurface of instantaneous Q criterion colored by speed over a vertical tail

Award Theta ESP
Domain Engineering

Flow, Mixing and Combustion of Transient Turbulent Gaseous Jets in Confined Cylindrical Geometries

PI Christos Frouzakis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)

Award Theta ESP
Domain Engineering

Scale-Resolving Simulations of Wind Turbines with SU2

PI Juan J. Alonso, Stanford University
Separated turbulent flow over a S809 airfoil

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 6 Million Core-Hours

Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbine Internal Cooling Passages

PI Gustavo Ledezma, General Electric

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 34 Million Core-Hours

High-Fidelity Computations of Fuel Assemblies Subjected to Seismic Loads

PI Elias Balaras, George Washington University

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

Computational Design of Novel Multiscale Concrete Rheometers

PI William George, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours

Advancing Internal Combustion Engine Simulations using Sensitivity Analysis

PI Sibendu Som, Argonne National Laboratory

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 72 Million Core-Hours

Toward a Longer-Life Core: Thermal-Hydraulic CFD Simulations of Deformed Fuel Assemblies

PI Elia Merzari, Argonne National Laboratory