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.

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Domain Engineering
Hours 35 Million Core-Hours

Combustion Stability in Complex Engineering Flows

PI Lee Shunn, Cascade Technologies, Inc.
Instantaneous contours of temperature from large eddy simulation

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Domain Engineering
Hours 105 Million Core-Hours

Enabling Green Energy and Propulsion Systems via Direct Noise Computation

PI Umesh Paliath, GE Global Research

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Domain Engineering
Hours 175 Million Core-Hours

Direct Numerical Simulations of High Reynolds Number Turbulent Channel Flow

PI Robert Moser, University of Texas

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Domain Engineering
Hours 30 Million Core-Hours

U.S.-Russia Collaboration on Verification and Validation in Thermal Hydraulics: Nek5000 and Conv3D Simulation of “SIBERIA” Experiment

PI Aleksandr Obabko, Argonne National Laboratory
Velocity magnitude from preliminary Nek5000 simulations of "SIBERIA" experiment.

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Domain Engineering
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours

Prediction of Multiscale, Multiphysics Turbulent Flow Phenomena Using Unstructured Large Eddy Simulation

PI Parviz Moin, Center for Turbulence Research Stanford University

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Domain Engineering
Hours 30 Million Core-Hours

Petascale Thermal-Hydraulic Simulations in support of CESAR

PI Elia Merzari, Argonne National Laboratory
Axial velocity distribution for 37-pin rod bundle.

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Domain Engineering
Hours 1.3 Million Core-Hours

Improving Aircraft Engine Combustor Simulations

PI Peter Bradley, Pratt & Whitney
Jet engine combustor design

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Domain Engineering
Hours 10 Million Core-Hours

The Interactions Between Vaporizing Liquid Droplets and a Turbulent Flow: Fully Resolved Direct Numerical Simulation

PI Said Elghobashi, University of California, Irvine

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Domain Engineering
Hours 12,000,000 Core-Hours

Turbulent multi-material mixing in the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

PI Sanjiva Lele, lele@stanford.edu

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Domain Engineering
Hours 20,000,000 Core-Hours

Direct Simulation of Fully Resolved Vaporizing Droplets in a Turbulent Flow

PI Said Elghobashi, University of California, Irvine

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Domain Engineering
Hours 20,000,000 Core-Hours

Turbulent Multi-Material Mixing in the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

PI Sanjiva Lele, Stanford University

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Domain Engineering
Hours 35,000,000 Core-Hours

Stochastic (w*) Convergence for Turbulent Combustion

PI James Glimm, Stony Brook University

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Domain Engineering
Hours 45,000,000 Core-Hours

Enabling Green Energy and Propulsion Systems via Direct Noise Computation

PI Umesh Paliath, GE Global Research
GE propulsion systems

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Domain Engineering
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours

Adaptive Detached Eddy Simulation of a Vertical Tail with Active Flow Control

PI Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado
Adaptive Detached Eddy Simulation of a Vertical Tail with Active Flow Control

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Domain Engineering
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

A Center for Turbulence Research - Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Collaboratory for Very Large Scale Turbulence Simulations on Petascale Computing Platforms

PI Parviz Moin, Stanford University
Models for the solid electrolyte interphase in Li batteries: Amorphous alumina on graphite.

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Domain Engineering

Aerodynamics Exploration for Advanced Aero-Propulsion Technologies

PI Jixian Yao, GE Research

Award Mira ESP
Domain Engineering
Hours 150 Million Core-Hours

Petascale, Adaptive CFD

PI Kenneth Jansen, U. Colorado-Boulder
Petascale, Adaptive CFD

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Domain Engineering
Hours 1.5 Million Core-Hours

Uncertainty Quantification for Turbulent Mixing

PI James Glimm, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Plot of the bubble penetration distance

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Domain Engineering
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours

Simulation of High Reynolds Number Turbulent Boundary Layers

PI Robert Moser, University of Texas at Austin

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Domain Engineering
Hours 45 Million Hours Core-Hours

Detached-Eddy Simulations and Noise Predictions for Tandem Cylinders

PI Philippe Spalart, Boeing