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Background: High fidelity simulations of turbulence often involve long integration times and lengthy simulations. Given the (inverse) proportionality of the computational cost with time step size, one method to reduce the overall cost is through increasing the time step size, thus requiring fewer ti...

Background: The Institute of Fluid Mechanics is involved in an European project called CEEC (https://ceec-coe.eu/).  CEEC’s ambition is to enable the use of exascale computers for key computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications and demonstrate their capabilities through key light-house cases. ...

Background: The Institute of Fluid Mechanics is involved in a European project called CEEC (https://ceec-coe.eu/).  CEEC’s ambition is to enable the use of exascale computers for key computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications and demonstrate their capabilities through key light-house cases. T...

Background: The effectiveness of wind farms in energy production is largely influenced by energy entrainment. In the atmosphere, the boundary layer fluctuates throughout the day, depending on factors such as temperature, terrain, and geographical location. As temperatures change during the day, the...

Background: A uniform fluid flow over a solid surface develops a boundary layer because of the viscous forces very close to the wall. Due to the instabilities present on the surface, a smooth laminar boundary layer transitions into turbulent boundary layer at sufficient enough Reynolds number. To d...

Background: SIMSON is a pseudo-spectral solver of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations which uses a velocity/vorticity formulation and a Fourier/Chebyshev representation of the fields. While the code is extremely fast thanks to its efficient numerical algorithms—around one order of magnitude f...