Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD, deals with the numerical solution to the governing equations for fluid flow. With the rapid increase in computer processor speed, CFD has emerged as an important tool to complement theoretical and experimental studies in fluid dynamics.
The Auburn University CFD Laboratory includes five desktop PC workstations and a 60-processor Linux cluster. The desktop workstations each employ dual processor CPUs, and are used for geometry modeling, grid generation, CFD computations, and flow visualization. The Linux cluster has 30 nodes, where each node is composed of two AMD Opteron 242 (64-bit) chips, for a total of 60 available processors. Communication between the nodes is achieved with high-speed Infiniband interconnects, and the cluster has a total of 0.5 terabytes of disk space. The 30 compute nodes, as well as the master node, are housed in two large, upright cluster racks. This cluster was developed and built by Penguin Computing (http://www.penguincomputing.com/) and employs the Scyld Linux operating system.
Computations on the Linux cluster include simulations of the flow through microfibrous materals using the Fluent CFD code, as well as computations with various CFD codes developed at Auburn University. The point of contact for the Linux cluster is Dr. A. Shelton.
The following professors are conducting research using the facilities.
- Dr Shelton
- Dr Hartfield
- Dr Ahmed
Coordinator: Dr. A. Shelton
Last Updated:
Feb 09, 2011
