Engineering Simulations
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Alya - High Performance Computational Mechanics
Alya is a simulation code for high performance computational mechanics. Alya solves coupled multiphysics problems using high performance computing techniques for distributed and shared memory accelerated supercomputers, together with vectorization and optimization at the node level.
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Combustion
The design of modern combustion systems needs to address challenges related to reduction of pollutant emissions, flexibility of operation while avoiding thermo-acoustic instabilities. The use numerical simulations is important as they provide detailed insights into the performance of the systems.
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Computational Fluid Mechanics - Compressible Flows
We research in Finite Element Methods for compressible flows covering a wide Mach number range, from (almost) incompressible up to hypersonic, including multi-scale and multi-physics effects such as turbulence and combustion or Fluid-Structure Interaction.
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Computational fluid mechanics - Incompressible flows
The simulations of coupled mechanics problems involving incompressible flows require continuous developments of physical and numerical algorithms to take into account all the physical aspects present in multiphysics problems, and to accurately solve these fluid equations.
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Computational solid mechanics
Our multi-physics parallel code Alya simulates non-linear solid mechanics for complex problems. With measured linear scalabilities in more than 100K cores, the solid mechanics module is used in several application areas: aerospace, biomedical, etc.
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eDrug: interactive drug design
Possibly our most ambitious project, designing the next generation smart and interactive drug design software, by combining biophysical modeling, advanced graphics (and virtual reality), high performance computing and cognitive computing.
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Mesh generation and adaptivity
Mesh generation methods are used in a daily basis by computational engineers and scientists to obtain numerical predictions on discrete approximations of complex geometrical configurations.
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Multiphysics
The main objective of this research line is the development of efficient numerical tools for multiphysics problems using single code or multicode coupling. Multiphysics problems arising from real life engineering applications are extremely complex and require intensive research and coding
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Numerical Methods
Numerical methods for computational mechanics to simulate complex problems capable to running efficiently on supercomputers are developed in Alya code. They are the mathematical ingredients required to reach a successful simulation.