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HPC simulation of aerodynamics & aeroacoustic

The next generation of commercial aircraft will require an efficient design loop on which unsteady aerodynamics is heavily involved: these include aerodynamics and aeroacoustics on fixed and mobile surfaces such as landing gear, high-lift system, FAN, compressor, turbine, wind turbine and open-rotor. CERFACS proposed to reach this objective by means of high-fidelity CFD methods (based on Large Eddy Simulation -LES- approach), which represents a breakthrough compared to industrial standards, which are based on the steady or unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) turbulence modelling. To make the use of LES in industry attractive, a lot of effort have to be done to reduce the CPU cost. Efforts must be made in different directions: numerical discretization (to get the best accuracy for a given CPU time), mesh generation, turbulence modelling, co-processing and HPC efficiency on different platforms (CPU and GPU).

Among all possible CFD approaches, CERFACS is involved in two promissing ones: Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) and high-order discontinuous approach such as Spectral Difference Method (SDM). CERFACS believe that these approaches have a great potential to dramatically reduce the simulation cost compared to traditional CFD formalisms. In this respect, comparisons are made with the standard CFD solvers available at CERFACS.

Here is an example of an aeroacoustic simulation around a full aircraft using an LBM approach. The use of Cartesian grid with immersed boundary method makes the use of LBM the most promising approach in term of restitution time for LES simulations.

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ISAF project : To accelerate the transition to SAFs, SAFRAN and CERFACS have together obtained an allocation of 44 million CPU hours on the LUMI-C super-computer as part of the EuroHPC Regular Access call in November 2022.

CERFACS |  11 March 2023

The objective of the ISAF project is to study the impact of SAFs (Sustainable Aviation Fuels) on engine operation and pollutant emissions, using high-fidelity Large Eddy Simulations (LES). The methodology developed at CERFACS combines Analytically Reduced Chemistry (ARC) with a multi-component evaporation model to capture the effect of fuel. The target configurations range from academic burners (CRSB at CORIA, SSB at DLR Stuttgart), to isolated industrial injection systems (MICADO at ONERA, HERON at CORIA) and complete annular combustor configurations (BEARCAT at SAFRAN, NTNU test bench).Read more


A CERFACS article distinguished in Scilight (https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0017474)

CERFACS |  9 March 2023

The recently published paper in Physics of Plasma: "3D particle-in-cell study of the electron drift instability in a Hall Thruster using unstructured grids," by W. Villafana, B. Cuenot, and O. Vermorel ( attracted the attention of Scilight (), whose goal is to present the most interesting research in the physical sciences published in AIP journals."Read more

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