Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Hello again after a long silence. The last few months
were quite hectic. In addition to our daily activities, we had several
prominent visitors to aerospace engineering, including a three-star general, a
NASA astronaut, a top Boeing executive. In fact, the general was interested in
seeing some CFD. I therefore got to shake his hand. I also had the pleasure of
visiting South America for the first time, as a matter of fact, the largest
country there - Brazil. I really enjoyed Brazil and will definitely visit again.
Here is a photo of Sao Paulo.
Oh yes, another big event in town was the the biggest
upset in ISU's football history - we beat Oklahoma State!
Now back to CFD...
The 1st International Workshop on High Order CFD Methods
will be held in Nashville on Jan. 7 and 8, 2012. Many types of high-order
methods will be covered by researchers from all over the world. We will have
two full days of actions. See the following agenda for details:
Here is a bit of history regarding the Workshop. I became
a member of the Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee of AIAA in 2006-2007, and
then started to chair the CFD Algorithm Discussion Group (DG) until 2010, when Dr. H.T. Huynh of NASA Glenn took over. The charter of the DG has been:
To coordinate research and promote discussion for the
improvement of CFD algorithms with a particular focus on:
i. High-order spatial discretization
ii. Error estimate, grid adaptation and
methods capable of handling bad grids
iii. Efficient time marching/iterative solution
methods for unsteady flow
iv.
Benchmark and challenge problems for above methods
Many leading CFD pioneers and experts including Jameson,
Roe and van Leer participated in various discussions. The workshop idea came from one of the many discussions, and was also shared by the ADIGMA project in Europe. A strong support has been provided by AFOSR and DLR of Germany. Through several years of
hard work, the DG has achieved two major milestones:
1. Identified three pacing items based on a survey and
numerous discussions - discontinuity capturing, hp-adaptations and low storage
efficient solver. Details are given in the following presentation.
2. The planning of the high-order workshop.
Let's hope we will have a very successful Workshop in Nashville!
