Vorcat Research Topics

At Vorcat, we are devising innovative solutions to the computational fluid dynamics problems of today and tomorrow: making difficult problems less expensive, easier, and faster to solve. The following list contains some of the areas of engineering, physics, mathematics, and computing that  we are currently exploring.

General Expertise in Fluid Mechanics:

  • Incompressible and compressible flow

  • Laminar, transitioning and turbulent flow

  • Steady and unsteady flow

  • External and internal flow

  • Flow instability

  • Viscous and inviscid flow

  • rotor flows

Forced and free heat convection:

  • Free surface flow

  • Two-phase particulate flow

  • Multiphase flow

  • Geophysical flows

  • Coastal hydraulics

  • Breaking waves

  • Vortex flows (e.g., wake vortices)

  • Non-hydrostatic ocean dynamics

Expertise in Turbulent modeling and simulation:

  • Boundary layer flow

  • Bluff body aerodynamics

  • Free shear flows, including jets and mixing layers

  • Particulate mixing

  • Turbulent mixing

  • Heat transfer

  • Buoyancy flows

  • Ground vehicle aerodynamics

  • Ship hydrodynamics

  • Acoustic fields

  • RANS modeling

  • Large eddy simulations

  • Wake dynamics

  • Rotor downwash

 

Expertise in Computational Fluid Dynamics and High Performance Computing:

  • Vortex methods

  • Fast multipole methods

  • Finite volume schemes

  • Unstructured meshes

  • Boundary element methods

  • Parallelization (MPI)

  • GPU computing

  • Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence in Fluid Dynamics

  • HPC Cloud Computing

Expertise in Aerodynamics:

  • Classical aerodynamics of missile configurations (slender wings and slender bodies)

  • 6 Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) Simulations of Flying Systems and Subsystems

  • Computational aerodynamics of missile configurations

  • High-angle-of-attack aerodynamics (including separation and vortex breakdown)

  • Shock wave structure and dynamics

  • Computational Aero-thermodynamics (Chemically reacting flows)

  • Development and application of high-order numerical schemes to high-speed

  • Flows (including shock waves, two-phase flows, chemically reacting flows and multi-fluids)

  • Development and application of projection methods to incompressible flows

  • Development of automatic mid-air refueling systems

  • Computation of critical fluids under microgravity conditions

  • Simulations of nonclassical fluids (with non-convex equation of state)

  • Wind turbine flows

  • Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aerodynamics