Contact Information:
Associate Professor.
dtafti@vt.edu
For more detail information, please go to:
http://www.hpcfd.me.vt.edu/index.shtml
What We Do
The group focuses on research in the advancement and application of computational methods and tools to aid the physical understanding of complex engineering fluid-thermal flows. Current applications areas are compact heat exchangers, turbomachinery, and lab-on-a-chip.
Research
Major topics of research are computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, turbulent flows and their modeling, direct, large-eddy, RANS simulations of turbulence, multiphysics microflows, numerical methods, algorithms and discretizations, and high-performance computing and communications.
Facilities
Our main facility consists of a high-performance Linux cluster of 42 Intel Pentium 4 - 1.70GHz compute nodes. The cluster uses RedHat Linux and Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR). The Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz processor used is a 7th generation x86 processor with the Intel NetBurst microarchitecture.