COOLFluiD: An Open Computational Platform for Plasma and Multi-physics

Speaker: Andrea Lani, the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
July 17, 2014

Presentation

Abstract

The COOLFluiD (Computational Object Oriented Libraries for Fluid Dynamics) project, which started in 2002 as a joint effort between the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics and the Center for Plasma Astrophysics at the University of Leuven, has led to the development of a world-class collaborative platform for high-performance scientific computing and multi-physics modelling. Within this framework, research efforts have been devoted to the modeling of space weather phenomena, aerothermodynamics, aeroacoustics, turbulence and multi-physics coupling for aerospace problems, ranging from incompressible regime to hypersonics. COOLFluiD features a modern object-oriented infrastructure, a unique collection of parallel numerical solvers for unstructured meshes, where each physical model or numerical algorithm is enclosed in a separate component which is loaded dynamically at run-time. The seminar will present some of the main strengths and scientific results of the platform in terms of reusable code design, advanced computational models and an overview of research applications. Particular attention will be devoted to aspects in the modelling of aerothermodynamics and all-speed plasma flows, including atmospheric re-entry flows in thermo-chemical nonequilibrium, fluid-radiation coupling, experiments in high-enthalpy facilities, space weather, fluid-elecromagnetics coupling.

Biography

Andrea Lani is currently Senior Research Engineer in the Aeronautics and Aerospace Department at the Von Karman Institute (VKI) for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium. He received his M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin (Italy) in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the University of Brussels (ULB) in 2008. He has been postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Ames / Stanford Center for Turbulence Research in 2010. He is technical team member of the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO). He is co-designer, main developer and project leader of COOLFluiD, a collaborative simulation infrastructure whose development has involved more than 60 international contributors so far. His research interests include numerical algorithms, modelling of aerothermodynamics, plasma, object-oriented design and generic programming techniques, HPC.

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