Periodic Reporting for period 2 - ASIMIA (Advanced High-Order Simulation Methods for Industrial Applications)
Reporting period: 2021-01-01 to 2022-12-31
ASIMIA's beneficiaries, NUMECA and UPM-CCS together with five ESRs, have enhancing High Order Methods (HOM) at industrial level to cope with complex physics. HOM are based on the introduction of high degree polynomials inside each computational mesh element to improve the approximation of the numerical solution. By doing so, the accuracy (i.e. difference between numerical and real solution) is significantly improved and the numerical error decreases when increasing the polynomial order.
ASIMIA has developed enhanced turbulent models using efficient accelerations (e.g. multigrid, adaptive refinements) and parallelization for HOM. In addition, ASIMIA has extended HOM to multidisciplinary applications coupling complex turbulent flows, multiphase, heat transfer and fluid-structure interactions with moving geometries. By developing a new generation of CFD solvers based on HOM, ASIMIA has enhanced transectorial transfer of knowledge through its partner organizations from aeronautical (Airbus), automotive (McLaren F1) and appliance industries (Dyson). ASIMIA has allowed significant transfer of knowledge from the academic partner UPM-CCS to Numeca/Cadence as industrial software developer. ESRs have learnt about, and contributed to, the transfer of numerical methodologies from academic research codes to industrial software systems.
The most prominent achievements for exploitation of results are related to the development of a new generation of HOM algorithms for CFD simulation with industrial capabilities. The new techniques and solvers include:
1- Multiphase flow simulations
2- Fast and advanced temporal schemes
3- Turbulence models
4- Fluid Thermal coupling
5- Fluid structure interactions
The overall objective of ASIMIA has been achieved since academic and industrial HOM solvers have been developed and are now available, including the features above.
All ESRs have spent at least 50% of their time in industry and have attended local and network courses, conferences, performed secondments and published journal papers. Five ESRs enrolled the PHD program at UPM, more specifically at the School of Aeronautics (ETSIAE-UPM). Four have already defended their PhD dissertation obtaining the PhD in 2022-2023, while 1 has already submitted his PhD work, which has been approved by the Academic commission at UPM.
The project counts with 11 published journal papers (top Q1 journals), 5 more under review (available in Arxiv or zenodo) and conference proceedings. Despite the COVID19 pandemic, which covered the whole extend of the project, the ESRs attended conferences presenting their work in to international audiences. Throughout the 4 years of ASIMIA, 19 network courses have been provided to the ESR including technical topics and transferable skills. In addition, local training and language courses have been provided at NUMECA and UPM when visiting the facilities. Publications, and lecture notes developed during the project are available in the project website: https://asimia.eu/
ESR1 has developed advanced techniques for multiphase (Cahn-Hilliard eq.s) using HOM. ESR2 has developed efficient iterative solvers (explicit, implicit and semi-implicit) for steady and unsteady simulations using HOM are critical to obtain industrial level performances. ESR 3 has developed steady-state Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes solvers in the context of high-order simulations, and investigates hp-multigrid with explicit local-time-stepping as a technique to accelerate the convergence of this steady-state problem, including the influence of near-wall p-adaptation. ESR 4 has focused on fluid-thermal interactions, known as conjugate heat transfer are an important component of prediction methods for industrial applications of CFD, when strong interactions between hot elements and surrounding flows take place. ESR5 has developed fluid-structure interactions in HOM, which allows easy imposition of complex moving geometries, without the need of re-meshing. Additionally, we have provided new error analysis for these techniques allowing us to propose novel corrections and improvements of the state of the art for immersed boundaries.
Regarding exploitation, Numeca/Cadence has ensure the development and exploitation of commercial code. Namely, Numeca’s software (renamed as Cadence) now includes high order version (see e.g. https://www.embedded.com/cadence-cfd-software-provides-10x-the-accuracy-of-standard-flow-solvers/). UPM-CCS has ensured the non-commercial exploitation of ASIMIA results, by including most development in the open access software https://github.com/loganoz/horses3d and 11 journal publications. Additionally, both industrial and academic software have been validated on complex geometries/cases including Aircraft, wings and formula 1 configurations, among others.