Project Manager:
M. Sc. Nima Fard-Afshar

Investigation of the Flow in a linear high pressure compressor Cascade using scale resolving Simulations

Principal Investigators:
Dr. Stefan Henninger
Affiliation:
RWTH Aachen University
HPC Platform used:
NHR4CES@RWTH: CLAIX

Hybrid RANS/LES (HRLES) is one SRS category, which bridges the gap between RANS and LES in regard to prediction accuracy of the results and required computing resources. The HRLES methods (i.e. various Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) formulations), with RANS modelling of the flow near the wall, and eddy-resolving simulation away from the wall, are believed to represent the mixing in turbulent flows

Project Manager:
Sebastian Strönisch

Digital thread-based Design of turbo Engines with embedded AI and high precision Simulation (DARWIN)

Principal Investigators:
Dr. Andreas Knüpfer
Affiliation:
TU Dresden, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, University of Surrey
HPC Platform used:
CPU and GPU Clusters

In the joint BMWi Lufo VI project DARWIN, the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) and the Chair of Turbomachinery and Aero Engines (TFA) at the TU Dresden are working in cooperation with Rolls Royce Germany on the further development, application and validation of innovative digital simulation and design methods to improve the interdisciplinary understanding of engine systems. Work includes improving load balancing of highly parallelized coupled simulation codes, measuring surface roughness and wear effects and feeding them back into simulation models, as well as applying machine learning (ML) methods to predict flow fields.

Project Manager:
Dr. Tobias Kenter

Acceleration of Shallow Water Simulations on FPGAs

Principal Investigators:
Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl
Affiliation:
Paderborn University, University of Bayreuth
HPC Platform used:
PC2: Noctua 1, in particular Bittware 520N cards with Stratix 10 FPGAs

Shallow water simulations are important for climate models, flood or tsunami predictions and other applications. Performing such simulations on unstructured meshes with the Discontinuous Galerkin method is numerically attractive, but a performance challenge on conventional architectures. With a customized dataflow architecture implemented on FPGAs, we have improved performance and power efficiency on a single FPGA and achieved promising initial results when scaling to multiple FPGAs via direct FPGA-to-FPGA interconnects.

Project Manager:
Dr.-Ing. Cihan Ates

Designing Gas-Liquid Contact Reactors for Efficient CO2 Capture

Principal Investigators:
Karthik Muthukumar
Affiliation:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
HPC Platform used:
NHR@KIT: HoreKa

Gas-liquid contactors (GLCs) are one of the core technologies utilized in the chemical industry, which play a critical role for reactant conditioning, chemical conversion and separation processes. Within the scope of this project, we are developing a high-performance falling film reactors for CO2 capture via engineering the way CO2 in gas phase mixes with the liquid absorbent at the reactive gas-liquid interface (micro-mixing phenomena). The major impact of the study will be the performance increase at large scale, which would pave the way for the transition of CO2 capture technologies into practice.

Project Manager:
Prof. Dr. habil. Michael Breuer

Flow around a Wind Turbine Blade at Reynolds Number 1 Million

Principal Investigators:
Prof. Dr. habil. Michael Breuer
Affiliation:
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg
HPC Platform used:
NHR@FAU: Fritz

The cost of energy produced by wind turbines has been undergoing a steady reduction. Wind energy supplied 15% of the electricity demand of the European Union in 2019. Since rotor blades are the determining component for both performance and loads, they are the objective of further optimizations. To obtain high efficiencies, an increased use of special aerodynamic profiles is observed possessing large areas of low-resistance, which means laminar flow is maintained. In order to design such profiles, it is necessary to include the laminar-turbulent transition in CFD simulations of wind turbine blades. Thus, the objective of the project is to carry out high-fidelity numerical simulations of the flow around a wind turbine blade at a realistic

Project Manager:
Dr. José Calvo Tello

Semi-Automatic Subject Classification with Basisklassifikation

Principal Investigators:
Dr. José Calvo Tello
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
HPC Platform used:
NHR@Göttingen

In this project the goal is to use algorithms to predict classes of the library classification system “Basisklassifikation” (which can be translated as basic classification). A library classification system is a taxonomy of predefined classes that represent disciplines, subdisciplines, themes or types of publications. Subject librarians assign one or more of these classes to each publication, allowing both final users or retrieval system to use this annotated information for finding publications. As input data we observe mainly bibliographic data, such as for example the title, the name of the publisher, the year of publication and the language of the publication. The algorithms should suggest several classes, which are then analyzed by

Project Manager:
Harish Kumar Singh

High Throughput Screening for Spin-Polarized Current in Noncollinear Magnetic Materials

Principal Investigators:
Prof. Hongbin Zhang
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Darmstadt
HPC Platform used:
NHR4CES@TUDa: Lichtenberg Cluster Darmstadt

The spin-dependent transport phenomena in magnetic materials can provide spin-polarized charge current and large pure spin current, which could be achieved premised on two fundamental properties, i.e., anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) and spin Hall conductivity [1]. The AHC is characterized as a generation of transverse voltage drop or current density (depending on the boundary conditions) originating from the longitudinal electric currents. The existence of finite AHC in noncollinear antiferromagnets has attracted noticeable attention due to possible applications in antiferromagnetic spintronics for information storage and data processing [2], where the kagome lattice turns out to be an intriguing prototypical lattice to host giant AHC

Project Manager:
Marcel Sadowski

Ab-initio Modeling of Battery Materials

Principal Investigators:
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Karsten Albe
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Darmstadt
HPC Platform used:
NHR4CES@TUDa: Lichtenberg Cluster Darmstadt

One approach to the realization of safer batteries relies on all solid-state batteries (ASSB) which use a non-flammable solid electrolyte (SE) instead of the commercial flammable liquid organic electrolytes. While many obstacles to the successful production of these batteries have already been overcome, the inner and outer interfaces in a real battery setup remain a major challenge. Thus, a thorough understanding of the interfacial atomistic processes is crucial, highlighting the value of interface simulations on the atomic scale. Currently, these are only possible via ab-initio methods, such as density functional theory (DFT) calculations, because no classical interatomic potentials exist, which can simultaneously describe the SE and

Project Manager:
Driss Kaddar

Direct numerical simulation of Flame-Wall-Interactions of DME flames

Principal Investigators:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hasse
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Darmstadt
HPC Platform used:
NHR4CES@TUDa: Lichtenberg Cluster Darmstadt

The energy transition is a global challenge with major economic and social impact. Future combustion devices will have to adapt to enable low-carbon or carbon-free sustainable power generation. The design of high efficiency devices and the use of alternative fuels is heavily supported by computational fluid dynamics simulation. However, detailed simulations of complete combustion systems are still computationally unfeasible to this day. This illustrates the need for accurate but less computationally demanding models. In this project, a direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flame wall interaction was conducted to provide further physical insight to near wall combustion processes and to contribute to the development of novel