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Research Activities |
Our research activities are related to the numerical prediction of time-dependent, transitional and weakly turbulent buoyancy-induced and buoyancy affected flows.
These type of flow problems are encountered in numerous and diverse engineering applications such as, for example, compact heat exchangers, cooling of electronic equipment, crystal growth, chemical vapor deposition of semiconducting layers and solidification of ingots.For these simulations we have developed and tested numerical codes which are particularly suited to model these type of thermal-flow problems. Both implicit and semimplicit numerical procedures have been used in a time-accurate formulation.
We are also using the CRAY T3E massively parallel computer. The results have been obtained using Cartesian, highly stretched grids in excess of 2x10E6 nodes.
Our work-horse computing platform was, up to now, the CRAY J/916 installed at the Computing Centre of the University of Trieste. At this moment, we are porting some of our codes, using OpenMP, to the SGI Origin 2000.
Our research projects encompass fundamental as well as applied research. Financial support, for all the activities, is provided by the Italian Minister of University and Research, ENEA, The Commission of the European Community and Private Industries.
Cyclic Tridiagonal Systems
Heat Transfer Enhancement
June 30th, 2002 - the WebMaster
