With today’s supercomputing power, it’s possible to simulate entire thunderstorms to study how and why some of them can spawn deadly tornadoes. The animation above comes from a computer simulation Keep reading
Tag: supercomputing
Simulating the Earth
Computational fluid dynamics and supercomputing are increasingly powerful tools for tracking and understanding the complex dynamics of our planet. The videos above and below are NASA visualizations of carbon dioxide Keep reading
Supersonic Bubble Shock Waves
Supercomputing has been an enormous boon to fluid dynamics over the past few decades. Many problems, like the interaction between a supersonic shock wave and a bubble, are too complicated Keep reading
Supercomputed Fluids
Computational fluid dynamics and supercomputers can produce some stunning flow visualizations. Above are examples of turbulence, the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Be sure to check out LCSE’s website Keep reading
Formula 1 Aerodynamics
[original media no longer available] Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the advent of supercomputing have forever changed the way engineers design. Here the use of CFD in the design of Keep reading
Sea Surface Temperatures
This video shows sea surface temperature results and their seasonal variation from a numerical simulation modeling circulation in the atmosphere and oceans. Modeling such enormous problems requires the development of reasonable Keep reading
Atomizing Jets
The breakup of impinging jets into droplets (also called atomization) and the subsequent dynamics of those droplets are important in applications like jet and rocket engines where the mixing of Keep reading
Simulating Turbulence
Turbulent flows are complicated to simulate because of their many scales. The largest eddies in a flow, where energy is generated, can be of the order of meters, while the Keep reading
Colorful Computational Combustion
Many fluid dynamics problems are so complicated that they require supercomputers to calculate the mathematical and physical details. This image shows a computer simulation of a cold ethylene jet combusting Keep reading