In industry, the applications are nearly limitless. The fluid-structure interaction module will find application in in-cylinder combustion in automotive flows, in rotor-stator interaction and non-synchronous vibration (NSV) in turbomachinery, in the analysis of mixing tanks, gear pumps and screw mixers in the chemical and food processing industries, and in a large variety of fluid-structure interaction problems in the plastics, paper and fiber processing industries, among others. Stress analysis in the presence of thermal gradients forms the staple of a vast number of industrial simulations. Furthermore, the features developed here will be central to expanding the role of sensitivity analysis and optimization in the automotive, aerospace, electronic cooling, power generation, chemicals and materials processing and other sectors.
Efficient and accurate flow and structural solvers based on unstructured meshes addressing compressible and incompressible flows and fluid-structure interaction on modern parallel architectures will find wide applicability in NASA. The fluid-structure interaction and sensitivity and optimization modules will find application in space re-entry, rotor-stator interaction, flutter and flexible-wing aerodynamics, as well as in a large variety of applications involving stress analysis in the presence of thermal gradients.
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