Numerically intensive simulations on an integrated computing infrastructure

This project is a coorperation with the reasearch groups of Prof. Grabowski, University of Göttingen and Prof. Yahyapour, GWDG. Additional support in the development of numerical methods for the application will be received from the research group of Prof. Deiterding from Southampton University. The project part of the Institute of Applied Mechanics has the following goals: From an engineering point of view the aim of this project is to develop an understanding of material transport and transformation in porous materials. The background of the project is the increasing demand in various fields of engineering, for example, chemical engineering, to design porous materials and to use them for example as supports for catalysts with improved conversion rates and selectivity. Therefore it is necessary to be able to predict the morphology-transport relationships involving chemical reactions more accurately than previously possible.

For the mathematically point of view the main task is the development of suitable numerical methods. The starting point for this are works which are already performed by the cooperation partner in the field of computational fluid dynamics, in particular the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method, the adaptive mesh refinement and the parallel and high performance computing and cloud computing. Until now there are only some raw theoretical models for calculation of multiphase fluids in such structures which are based on the LB method. To use this method for calculation of technically relevant porous structures, further developments are needed to dissolve the processes running on very different length scales in numerical methods.

Cooperation partner

Prof. Dr. phil. nat. Jens Grabowski Institute for Computer Science, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ramin Yahyapour Institute of Computer Science, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Deiterding University of Southampton, England

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