High Altitude CFD Laboratory


The University of Wyoming Campus, at 7220 feet above sea level, is the
highest altitude campus in the US.  (Its not the CFD, its our location)


This page is under construction ....
(Click on images for description and enlarged view)







PERSONNEL:
Click Here for Group Picture (taken with Prof. K. Nakahashi (Tohoku U.) during a recent visit)


Lab Director:  
             Prof.  Dimitri Mavriplis
               


Postdoctoral Research Assistants:

             Cristian Nastase (Discontinuous Galerkin Multigrid Solvers)
             Zhi Yang (Unsteady Aeroelastic Simulation Methods)
             Khosro Shahbazi (Discontinuous Galerkin Methods)


Graduate Students (Ph.D Degree):
 
              Li Wang (Research Topic: Discontinuous Galerkin Methods)
              Karthik Mani (Research Topic: Unsteady Adjoint Methods) (Home Page)
              Brian Lockwood (Research Topic: Adjoint Methods for Error Control)
              Pramod Singh (Research Topic: TBD)


Graduate Students (Master Degree):
 
              Jing Liu (Research Topic: Lattice Boltzmann Methods, co-advised with Prof. D. Smith)


Visiting Graduate Students:
 
              Wataru Yamazaki (Tohoku University, Sendai Japan: visited February 2006)



Undergraduate Research Assistants:

             None currently: Please apply if interested

             





PROJECTS:

..........all in a parallel computing environment .........

          We use Linux Operating systems, Fortran 90 and C computer languages, and MPI for inter-processor communication.
           Knowledge of these languages and environments is essential for these projects.




 

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS (somewhat dated, to be updated soon ...)

Large Scale Aircraft High-Lift Computations
Drag Prediction in Transonic Flow using NSU3D
Parallel Benchmarking of Unstructured Grid Codes
Parallel Implicit Solvers for Radiation Transport (ASCI Level 2 Project)
A Few Recent downloadable Talks
A Few Recent downloadable publications





HARDWARE:


Come see the BRAIN of our operation:    96 CPU/core   AMD-Opteron   Cluster Computer
                                                                     Dual Processor/Dual Core Configuration
                                                                     Gigabit Ethernet Interconnect


Other Hardware:           3 X  2.8 GHz  Pentium 4   Dell  PC,   2 Gbyte RAM,  Red Hat Linux OS                        
                                       2 X  3.0 GHz  Pentium 4   Dell  PC,   1 Gbyte RAM,  Dual Boot (Linux/Windows XP) 
                                       The rest .... not worth mentioning....