Computation

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Numerical simulations are performed to study basic fluid dynamics processes, validate model ideas, aid in the interpretation of experimental data and the design of experiments. These simulations are performed on in-house parallel clusters, university resources and the Air Force High Performance Computing systems at Wright Patterson AFB, OH. The computational codes include numerous in-house boundary layer and Navier-Stokes solvers as well as the following commercial software: Cobalt (Cobalt, Inc.), GASP (Aerosoft, Inc.), Fieldview (Ilight, Inc.), Tecplot (Tecplot, Inc.), Gridgen (Pointwise, Inc.) and VGrid (NASA Langley). A few example graphics are given below:

Gasdynamic flame holding in scramjet combustion

Shock Interaction induced Shear Layer (SISL)