Simulations involving free surfaces and fluid interfaces are important in many areas of
engineering. There is, however, still a need for improved simulation methods. Recently, a …

For the second-order finite volume method, implicit schemes and reconstruction methods
are two main algorithms which influence the robustness and efficiency of the numerical …

Finite volume methods (FVMs) constitute a popular class of methods for the numerical
simulation of fluid flows. Among the various components of these methods, the discretisation …

We investigate the aerodynamics of a surging, heaving, and yawing wind turbine with
numerical simulations based on a free-wake panel method. We focus on the UNAFLOW …

Abstract The Launch Ascent and Vehicle Aerodynamics (LAVA) framework, developed at
NASA Ames Research Center, is introduced. This technology originated from addressing …

With distributed propulsion and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft on the rise, fast
and accurate methods to simulate propeller slipstreams and their interaction with aircraft …

Plasma discharges in electromagnetic thrusters often operate with weakly-collisional,
magnetized electrons. Macroscopic models of electrons provide affordable simulation times …

A deterministic Boltzmann model equation solver called dugksFoam has been developed in
the framework of the open source CFD toolbox OpenFOAM. The solver adopts the discrete …

Inspired by the recent growth of computational methods for general polygonal and
polyhedral meshes, this paper introduces Cinolib: a novel header only C++ library for …

A 3D fluid model has been developed to simulate streamer discharges in unsteady airflow.
The model couples the drift–diffusion equation for charged particles, the Navier–Stokes …