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 ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 111.5 Million Core-Hours

Credible Predictive Simulation Capabilities for Advanced Clean Energy Technology Development through Uncertainty Quantification

PI Aytekin Gel, ALPEMI

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 88 Million Core-Hours

Direct Numerical Simulations and Robust Predictions of Cloud Cavitation Collapse

PI Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zürich
cavitating vapor bubbles above a solid wall

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

DNS/LES of Complex Turbulent Flows

PI Krishnan Mahesh, University of Minnesota
Autoignition of a turbulent hydrogen jet injected into hot oxygen

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 135 Million Core-Hours

Large-Eddy Simulation of the Bachalo-Johnson Flow, with Shock-Induced Separation

PI Philippe Spalart, Boeing

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 89 Million Core-Hours

Large Eddy Simulations of Combustor Liner Flows

PI Anne Dord, GE Global Research
Large Eddy Simulations of a GE CFM combustor, temperature distribution and liquid fuel droplets.

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 70 Million Core-Hours

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

PI Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado Boulder

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 44 Million Core-Hours

Parameter Studies of Boussinesq Flows

PI Susan Kurien, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 11 Million Core-Hours

Understanding Secondary Motions and Their Impact in Modeling Turbulent Flows

PI Hassan Nagib, Illinois Institute of Technology

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 36.5 Million Core-Hours

Amplitude Modulation of Wind Turbine Noise

PI Sanjiva Lele, Stanford University

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 76.8 Million Core-Hours

Turbulent Multiphase Flows for Nuclear Reactor Safety

PI Igor A. Bolotnov, North Carolina State University

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

Petascale Simulations in Support of CESAR

PI Elia Merzari, Argonne National Laboratory
Large eddy simulation of the flow in a rod bundle at high Reynolds numbers. Rod bundles are a fundamental component of reactor cores.

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 120 Million Core-Hours

Predictive Large‐Eddy Simulation of Jet Fuel Atomization, High‐Lift Airframes, and Reacting Supersonic Turbulent Flows on Unstructured Grids

PI Parviz Moin, Stanford University
swirling injector

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Combustion Stability in Complex Engineering Flows

PI Lee Shunn, Cascade Technologies
NOx prediction in a swirl-type DLN combustor

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 75 Million Core-Hours

Large Eddy Simulations of Combustor Liner Flows

PI Anne Dord, GE Global Research
Large Eddy Simulations of a GE CFM combustor, temperature distribution and liquid fuel droplets.

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

Parameter Studies of Boussinesq Flows

PI Susan Kurien, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Award INCITE
Domain Engineering
Hours 66 Million Core-Hours

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

PI Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado
Full span view of the flow past a vertical tail assembly of a commercial aircraft with active flow control at Re=360,000.

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 44 Million Core-Hours

U.S. Russia Collaboration on Cross-Verification and Validation in Thermal Hydraulics: Nek5000, Cfoam-CABARET, and Conv3D, Simulations of MATiS and MAX Experiments

PI Aleksandr Obabko, Argonne National Laboratory
Axial velocity in Nek5000 LES simulation of 2012 OECD/NEA Matis benchmark experiment which is one of the experiments chosen for cross-verification and validation in 2013 ALCC project.

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 11 Million Core-Hours

Does A Turbulent Duct Flow Ever Become Two-Dimensional

PI Hassan Nagib, Illinois Institute of Technology; KTH Mechanics, Sweden

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 150 Million Core-Hours

Wall Modeling and Primary Atomization for Predictive Large-Eddy Simulation of Airframes, Jet Engines and Jet Noise

PI Parviz Moin, Stanford University
The rectangular nozzle is shown in gray with an isosurface of temperature (gold) cut along the center plane of the nozzle showing temperature contours (red/yellow).

Award ALCC
Domain Engineering
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

Petascale Thermal Hydraulic Simulations in Support of CESAR

PI Elia Merzari, Argonne National Laboratory
Large eddy simulation of the flow in a rod bundle at high Reynolds numbers. Rod bundles are a fundamental component of reactor cores.