Capabilities

Computational infrastructure

• Unstructured meshes with adaptive refinement
• Hybrid MPI/OpenMP architecture, demonstrated on 32,000+ parallel cores
• GPU acceleration via OpenACC
• 4th-order central finite-volume methods, with high-order extensions

Physics solvers

YALES2 includes 45+ dedicated solvers, covering:

• Flows

  Incompressible and compressible flows

• Two-phase flows

  Spray dynamics and atomization

• Heat & radiation

  Heat transfer and radiative transport

• Structures

  Structural mechanics and fluid–structure interaction

• Biomedical

  Thrombosis, blood flow, red blood cells

• Combustion

  Tabulated and finite-rate chemistry

• Acoustics & electromagnetics

  Acoustic and electromagnetic problems

Advanced modeling

• Turbulence: Large-Eddy Simulation (Smagorinsky, WALE) and RANS approaches
• Thermodynamics: real-gas equations of state, using NIST tables
• Atmospheric flows: atmospheric boundary-layer effects
• Porous media: porous-media flow modeling

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