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Austria

University of Vienna, Institute of Mathematics, ACORE: Software development (numerics and visualization), compressible flows, applications in astrophysics and other areas.

Belgium

von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics: Aeronautics and Aerospace, Turbomachinery, Environmental and Applied Fluid dynamics and a CFD-group. Information about educational programs, history, objectives, research. Also has a phone-book online.

Canada

Queen's University, Centre for Advanced Gas Combustion Technology: Research, development and advanced training in gas combustion. Introduction to the people, research areas and some publications..
University of Alberta - Computational Fluid Dynamics: Computer simulation work of multiphase flow systems (fluidized beds, bubble columns, cyclone separators), stirred tank studies and transient flow phenomena. The web site gives a description of the research and contact information.
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, CFD Group: Develops CFD methods and models with application to aerodynamic flows. The web site gives a a brief description of the group's research and a list of recent publications.

Denmark

Aalborg University Esbjerg, Group for Chemical Fluid Flow Processes (CHEFF): The Chemical Fluid Flow Processes research group (CHEFF) works on Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD) analysis of the flow processes which are relevant for the chemical process industry and the oil-and gas industry. This includes development of methods, models and computer software as well as experimental verification (EFD) using laser based techniques. Information about people and research areas.
Aalborg University, Inst. of Energy Technology, Fluid Mechanics And Combustion Technology Section: Working with turbulent swirling flows, gas-particle flows, optimization of flow geometries and combustion modeling. The web site gives information about people and research areas, animations and downloads.
Risoe National Laboratory: CFD applied to Wind Turbines. Description of the EllipSus2D/3D code developed at Risoe and DTU and its applications to general wind turbine design. The web site gives a general description of the work done by the fluids team and graphical representation of the results.
Technical University of Denmark, Department of Biotechnology: A small group in the department is involved in Hygienic Design of food processing equipment, by the aid of CFD. Also functional design of food processing eqiupment using CFD is performed.
Technical University of Denmark, Department of Fluid Dynamics: Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Finland

Center for Scientific Computing (CSC), CFD: Information about specialists and application softwares.
Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Aerodynamics: Research and teaching of aerodynamics (numerical and experimental) and flight mechanics. Links to pages describing briefly the main areas of interest of the laboratory. A list of personnel and lately published reports is also available.
Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Applied Thermodynamics: Develops the FINFLO flow simulation software. The main interests of the laboratory are turbulence modeling, CFD for rotating machinery and modeling of free surfaces. Project summary, information about personnel, image and movie gallery.
Helsinki University of Technology, Ship Laboratory: The group of Ship Hydrodynamics develops the FINFLO RANS solver for the naval applications. Homepage provides information about personnel and the research projects are briefly described.

France

Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Division Modelisation Numerique (CFD Group): Working with incompressible turbulent steady/unsteady flows computations, Navier-Stokes equations, complex geometries, turbulence models and validation. The site gives information about personnel, research, publications, applications and more. A nice site!
ESTACA: Automotive and Aeronautic engineering school in Paris. In charge of many research projects in CFD and other areas. Information about the students, school, areas of studies.

Germany

Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery: Flows in turbomachinery, multiphase flows, reacting flows, flows in cavities, also experimental fluid mechanics. Informations about research and teaching, list of staff, publication index.
HSVA, Hamburg Ship Model Basin: HSVA is working on several CFD topics having a marine background. These include free surface computations for ships and internal flows, e.g. in tanks, viscous (RANS) flow around shiphulls at constant forward speed and oblique flow, propeller applications using potential as well as viscous methods and several more. The web site presents their services, facilities and staff.
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Hydro Gang: Astrophysical fluid dynamics. Information about people and research projects. Many sections are still under construction.
RWTH Aachen, Shock Wave Laboratory: Shock waves, turbulent flame propagation, detonations, high temperature gas dynamics. Information about people, research projects facilities and more. Lots of information and a search interface. Also has publications online !
Technical University Chemnitz, Research Group on Multiphase Flows: Numerical investigation of disperse multiphase flows (e.g. gas-particle, gas-droplet flows) using 3-dimensional Lagrangian approach (PSI-Cell model). Development of parallel solution algorithms for calculation of 3-d gas-particle flows on MIMD parallel computers. Information about people, research work, some applications, full publication index, some papers available online (compressed postscript).
Technical University of Berlin, Hermann-Föttinger-Institut für Strömungsmechanik: Turbulence Modeling, Stability, Large-Eddy-Simulation, Swirling Flows, Parallel Computing, Grid Generation,... Local Information, Links to WWW-Server, Special-Services
Technical University of Berlin, ISM, Ocean Engineering: Transient viscous computation (RANSE/VOF) of wave structure interactions, numerical optimization of offshore structures, numerical wave tanks The web site includes text information, research-papers, links, pictures and videos.
Technical University of Darmstadt, Mech. Eng., Aerodynamics and Measurement Techniques: Works with CFD.
TU Berlin, ISM, Ship Hydromechanics: CFD Analysis of propellers and ships. Geometric Modelling, Grid Generation, solving RANSE equations. Design of an "Segeldynamometer". The site gives an overview of research fields, organisation, online documents etc.
TU Darmstadt, Institute for Energy and Powerplant Technology: Working with LES/RANS modeling of turbulent combuston, multiphase flows and also modeling of CVD process. The site includes information about personnel, research, list of publications and more.
University of Applied Sciences Kiel, CFD Laboratory: CFD for bio-medical devices (incubators, flowsensors), windturbines and turbomachinery. The site gives gereral information about staff, equipment and current projects.
University of Duisburg, Combustion and Gas Dynamics, CFD Group: Multiphase Flows, Detonation, Adaptive Mesh Refinement on Structured and Unstructured Grids, Fundamental Methods in CFD, Ship Flow, Lattice Gas Methods. Various links describing the CFD related work and projects.
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Fluid Mechanics (LSTM): A large group working in the fields of CFD viz. fluid-structure interaction, large eddy simulation (LES), direct numerical simulation (DNS), multiphase flow modeling, turbulent reactive flow simulations, flow through porous media, cellular automata, lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) and high performance computing (HPC). Web page includes info about research areas, projects, technical events, short courses, contacts etc.
University of Halle, Department of Engineering Science: Modelling and numerical calculation of multiphase flows based on the Euler-Lagrange and two-fluid approach. Applicability of 2d and 3d codes to gas-solid flows, sprays and bubbly flows; coupling with electrostatic field. Relevant models, turbulent dispersion, wall collision, inter-particle collision including coalescence. The web-site gives information on running projects, reports and test cases for download.
University of Hannover - Institute of Fluid Mechanics: The Institute is involved with the numerical simulation of flow and flow-induced transport processes in hydraulic, coastal, geotechnical, sanitary, ocean and structural engineering.
University of Heidelberg, Applied Mathematics, FEAST Group: Develops a FEM-solver for incompressible flow called FEATFLOW. Also publishes the 'Virtual Album of Fluid Motion' which is a very extensive collection of CFD visualizations. The homepage contains the complete sources and documentation and all data from the 'Virtual Album' (about 4 GByte!)
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Computer Applications, Numerical Methods for HPC: Working mainly with numerical methods for partial differential equations. Typical applications are flow simulations including two-phase flows, porous media, multigrid, incompressible and compressible flows, non-newtonian flows and more. Information about research and personnel. Has some full-text preprints online!
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery: Working with incompressible turbulent steady/unsteady flows computations, RANS, complex geometries, turbulence models, validation, high performance computing, LES, rotor/stator interactions, cavitation.
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Nuclear Technology and Energy Systems IKE: Working with multiphase flow, turbulence modeling, turbulence research, bubbly flows, phase change phenomena, two-phase modeling, DNS, LES, CFX, boiling, condensation, cavitation and reactor flows. The whole site is in German!
University of Stuttgart, Institute of Structural Mechanics: Research on fluid structure interaction (besides their traditional research field which is computational structural mechanics). Finite Elements for instationary, incompressible Navier-Stokes.
University of Technology, Berlin, CFD-Group: Workiong with CFD, turbulence modelling, fluid-structure interaction, computational aero acoustics, teaching and industrial projects. The web site gives information on research and teaching, staff, links and special services.

Greece

National Technical University of Athens, Mechanical Engineering, Fluids Section: Information about research, personnel and laboratories.

Hong Kong

University of Hong Kong, Mech. Eng., Prof. Chwang's Fluid Mechanics Research Group: Research in water wave mechanics, with emphasis on porous media, ship waves, solitons and field measurements. List of group members, publications, facilities and projects.

India

IIT Bombay, Department of Aerospace Engineering, CFD Lab: Develops IITZeus, a versatile multi-block grid generator.
Indian Institute of Science, Dept. of Aerospace Eng., Centre of Excellence for Aerospace CFD: Research in areas like algorithm development, fluid-structure interaction, and solution adaptive grids. They have developed Kinetic Schemes such as Kinetic Flux Vector Splitting (KFVS) and Least Squares Kinetic Upwind Method (LSKUM). The web-site provides information about the research activities, people, publications, events and some CFD related links.

Ireland

University College Dublin, Department of Mechanical Engineering: Subsonic/transonic flow prediction with control; convective heat transfer cooling of electrical/electronic equipment The web site includes details of ongoing research, research facility, publications.

Italy

Politecnico di Milano, Internal Combustion Engine Group: Developes a 1D code named GASDYN. It is 1D thermo-fluid dynamic model for the simulation of the whole engine system.
University of Trieste, Naval Architecture, Ocean & Environmental Eng. - Applied Physics: Buoyant flows (natural convection in enclosures and mixed convection in channels); cooling of electronic equipment; heat transfer augmentation; CFD for incompressible, time-dependent flows. Description of the aims of the research, with still images and short animations. Links to relevant sites.
University of Udine, Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: Environmental and Process Fluid Dynamics. Turbulent transport in the environment and in industrial facilities. Turbulence Control by EHD forces. The site provides information on research and teaching with online documents.

Japan

Tohoku University , Institute of Fluid Science: Extreme fluid phenomena, functional fluids, control systems of flow and heat transfer. Information about research and a scientific gallery.
University of Tokyo, Mechanical Engineering, Turbulence and Heat Transfer Lab: Turbulence modeling, Structures and Transport Mechanisms, Control of Turbulence Phenomena. Information about people and current research. Online bibliography.

Korea

Seoul National University, Dept of Mech. Eng., Center for Turbulence and Flow Control Research: Turbulence controls for drag reduction, noise reduction, heat-transfer enhancement, and mixing enhancement. The web site gives information about research activity, publications and animation of fluid flows.

Netherlands

Delft University of Technology, Aerospace Engineering, Aerodynamics Group: Fundamental and applied research in aerodynamics of aircraft and spacecraft. Theoretical (analytic and numerical) and experimental methods for flow analysis, simulation and prediction. Overview of research, education, facilities and people.
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Physics, Section Heat Transfer: Working with turbulent combustion, natural and forced convection and turbulence modeling. Information about people, research and courses.
Delft University of Technology, Kramers Laboratorium voor Fysische Technologie: Computational and experimental studies of flow, heat and mass transfer in chemical process equipment. The web-site give information about people, research, education and facilities.
Eindhoven University of Technology, Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: Turbulence, Vortex Dynamics, Gas Dynamics, Aeroacoustics, Combustion. Information about research, publications and people.
Eindhoven University of Technology, Thermo Fluids Engineering: The main goal of the Thermo Fluids Engineering Division is to contribute to the development of new equipment in which fluid flows, mass transfer, heat transfer and chemical reactions play a prominent role. The website gives information on research, education, people and publications.
J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics: Turbulence, multiphase flow, free surface flow, CFD modeling, compressible flow. General information and introductions to the research areas.
University of Groningen, Dept. of Mathematics, Computational Mechanics Group: Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow, free-surface. liquid dynamics, (industrial) applications of CFD Movie gallery of various simulations, background information on methods used, list of publications.

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Simon Bolivar University (USB), Center for Fluid Mechanics and Applications (CEMFA): Main areas of research and consulting in CFD are: Multiphase Flow (e.g., Static Mixers, Gas-Liquid Compact Separators), River Hydraulics (Free Surface Flows approaching a Dam, Solid Transport in Rivers), CHT (e.g.,Viscous Flow around an Electric Motor), Transitional Flow (e.g., T-S waves generation and propagation within an Airfoil Cascade), Compressible Flow (e.g., Flow through a Gas-Lift Valve), etc. The web site includes information about recent publications and projects.

Norway

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering: CFD in hydraulic engineering: sediment transport, intakes, flood waves, water quality in lakes etc. The site contains examples with color graphics, downloadable CFD modeling freeware, downloadable class notes for CFD in hydraulic engineering, links to other software and examples of CFD in hydraulic engineering.

Russia

IBRAE RAS, Lab of Computational Heat and Hydrodynamics: A small department working in several CFD related areas like CAD, numerics and grid generation: orthogonal and/or TFI multiblock grids, cartesian hiearchical local-refinement grids, CAD interfacing and tetra meshing.
Russian Academy of Science, Special Research Bureau, Computational Fluid Mechanics & Ocean. Lab: Hydroacoustic, hydrophysics and hydrometeorology experiments, computational fluid mechanics, tidal and sea current simulation, storm seakeeping of ship, design sea researches equipment. The web site has abstracts of marine researches & design facilities.

Singapore

Nanyang Technological University, Aerospace Division: CFD of aerospace applications.

South Africa

University of Pretoria, Mechanical Engineering, CFD Lab: Research in Atmospheric Flow Modelling, Industrial CFD processes, Vehicle Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer, Aerodynamic Application and Flow Optimisation. List of people, publications and examples of projects.

South Korea

Seoul Nat'l Univ., Mech. Eng., Turbomachinery Lab: CFD and experimental research for turbomachinery applications. Focusing on centrifugal and axial pumps, compressors, fans, diffusers, etc. Validating and assessing CFD techniques by comparing with experiments. The web site gives information about research topics, profiles of professor and members and contact information.
Yeungnam Univ., Computer Applied Fluid Laboratory: [CFD] - INS, SIMPLE, PISO, FEM, [Solid Modeler] - IGES, NURBS, [Grid Generation] - Algebraic, Analytic [Mesh Generation] - Delaunay, Advancing Front. Free download of simulation software for educational purposes (GENGRID V1.1, FEMFLOW V1.0, VISFLOW V1.0, etc.). Only precompiled binaries, no source. The site gives a short presentation of the lab, activites and members.

Spain

SEECAT - South European Center for Advanced Transport Phenomena: A research group within the Escola Tecnica Superior D'Enginyeria Quimica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. The main areas of research are: Turbulent flows, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer and Combustion Modeling. General Information about SEECAT.
Technical University of Catalonia, Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy Technology: Working on CFD applied to the design and optimization of thermal systems. The web site gives a brief overview of the research, facilities, personnel and publications.

Sweden

Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Thermo and Fluid Dynamics: Fluid Mechanics and Turbulence, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, Gas-dynamics and Turbomachinery, Multiphase Flow and Combustion Modeling. Information about research and personnel.
Luleå University of Technology, Division of Fluid Mechanics: Research in hydrodynamic stability, flows in paper making and direct strip casting of steel. Information about people, research and courses. A bit thin.

Switzerland

EPFL, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Thermodynamics and Turbomachinery: Working with flutter, losses, turbine heat transfer and parallel computing. Information about personnel, research, facilities and publications. Some full papers are available directly online.
EPFL, Mechanical Engineering, Hydraulic Machines and Fluid Mechanics: The Fluid Mechanics Lab (LMF) works with CFD. Information about the organization, people and some publications.
ETH Zentrum, Mechanical and Process Engineering: Different groups working with fluid dynamics, energy systems, combustions, turbomachinery and more. More information can be found at each group's homepage.
ETH Zentrum, Mechanical and Process Engineering, Energy Systems Laboratory: Working with air flows in buildings, combustion and energy and environmental issues. Information about research and peronnel.
ETH Zentrum, Mechanical and Process Engineering, Institute of Fluid Dynamics: Working with industrial safety and environmental protection problems and turbulent flows. CFD using both RANS, LES and DNS. Most pages are still under construction (24/5 -96), but some information about their research is available.
ETH Zentrum, Mechanical and Process Engineering, Turbomachinery Laboratory: Gives a short summary of their research and personnel.
ETH Zurich, Air&Climate Group: A small research group working with CFD applications in and around buildings. Subjects of recent research are: Spreading of smoke in case of fire, industrial ventilation applications (reinforced exhaust systems), sedimentation of particles. The web site gives general information about the work of the group, papers and abstracts and a link-page.

U.K.

Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering Department, Loughborough University: Works with CFD and aerodynamics focused on automotive and turbomachinery applications. The web site gives and overview of the department, research and staff.
City University, Civil Engineering, CFD Group: Development and application of turbulence models and solution procedures to problems in heat and fluid flow. Has animations, images and papers online.
Cranfield University, College of Aeronautics, Centre for CFD: Research into CFD algorithm development, Newton-like methods, convergence acceleration, transonic shock control, hypersonic heating, shock boundary layer interaction. turbulence modelling, supersonic vortical flows etc List of people involved in CFD, publications, current research and specialist short course available.
Cranfield University, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Combustion Modeling: Combustion and flame modeling for turbomachinery applications. Information about people, research projects, courses and links to other related sites.
Imperial College, CFD Research Group, Thermofluids, Mech Eng.: This is the home page for Prof.Gosman's CFD research group. They work on all areas of CFD, including turbulence modelling (RAS, LES) and combustion, multiphase and free surface flow. Contains information about the research, and about FOAM, a general-purpose CFD code written in C++ using OOP techniques. Types of info provided : Technical and scientific info about research in the group. Papers/preprints. Details about students and postdocs.
Imperial College, Department of Aeronautics: Research programs in Aircraft Aerodynamics, Hypersonic Aerodynamics,Bluff Body Aerodynamics, Road Vehicle Aerodynamics, Boundary Layers, Atmospheric Dispersion, Wind Turbine Aerodynamics, Marine Technology, CFD, Aerospace Vehicle Design, Control and Optimization Theory. Information about people, research programs and courses.
Manchester Metropolitan University, Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Flow Analysis: Research in aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, shock waves, explosion hazards, fluid structure interactions and Groundwater. Has a lot of information online - people, research areas, bibliographies, animations and more.
Oxford University, Institute for Computational Fluid Dynamic: Working with CFD algorithms. Just a brief introduction to the institute.
The University of Greenwich, Fire Safety Engineering Group: Working with simulation of fire related phenomena including radiation modelling, combustion modelling, fire-sprinkler interaction, knowledge based techniques for CFD, and multi-phase flow. Products are: SMARTFIRE: An interactive fire field modelling CFD environment. EXODUS: An evacuation modelling system. Site gives a complete overview of research interests, learning opportunities, product development news and short courses.
UMIST Mechanical Engineering CFD Group: The UMIST CFD Group is engaged in a broad range of fundamental and applied research projects, with the main theme being turbulence modeling and simulation in complex flows. The home page contains information about this research and its relevance to Fluids Engineering, about the group and about the environment in which the research progresses. The page also contains research briefs and a list of selected publications covering 1995-8.
University of Bradford, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering: Has a small fluid dynamics and heat transfer group working mainly with two-phase flows and multi-element airfoils. Introduction to their research and information about personnel and selected publications.
University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Water Resources Mangagement Group: CFD modelling in environmental water engineering with special emphasis on water quality in lakes. Examples of research on CFD modelling of circulation and algae in lakes and reservoirs.
University of Glasgow, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, CFD Group: Research into numerical methods for the Navier-Stokes equations (particularly implicit methods), parallel computing on clusters for CFD, aerodynamic applications in the areas of shock waves, unsteady flows, aeroelasticity, delta wings, surge waves and helicopters, and education for CFD. The web site gives summaries of research areas, downloadable reports, pictures of the group, information for students and a computer assisted learning course in CFD
University of Greenwich, Centre for Numerical Modeling and Process Analysis: Specialising in fire safety, parallel processing, algorithms and others. Information about people and research areas.
University of Hertfordshire, School of Engineering, CFD Group: Working in the areas of wall laws and boundary conditions; ventilation of the human lung; high pressure gas leak jets; and the natural ventilation of modules on offshore gas and oil rigs. Information & background of all the group members; short summaries of the projects and work taking place; what codes and hardware are being used.
University of Leeds, CFD Centre: This is a multidisciplinary centre for research, comprising the Departments of Applied Mathematical Studies, Chemical Engineering, Earth Sciences, Fuel and Energy, Mechanical Engineering and the Schools of Chemistry and Computer Studies.
University of Nottingham, Division of Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Divisional research covers a wide range of studies including Coastal Engineering, Wind Engineering, River Hydraulics and Urban Drainage, using a variety of numerical models. The web site provides divisional information, staff lists, research project information, links to important sites of interest, available research positions etc.
University of Southampton, Computational Engineering and Design Centre: Development of parallel CFD codes within a centre dedicated to parallel computation of a wide range of engineering disciplines. Of particular interest is an unstructured, incompressible solver written in C++.
University of Southampton , Inter-Departmental CFD Group: Pointers to CFD-related research at the University of Southampton. Includes research in the Departments of Aeronautics, Ship Science, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Maths, Electronics and Computer Science, Geography and Oceanography.
University of Surrey, Mech. Eng., Fluid Dynamics Group: Experiments on environmental flows including stratified and separated flows, large-eddy simulation of spatially developing flows, transition and turbomachinery; flow measurement, discrete vortex methods. Information about research areas, people and facilities.

U.S.A.

Brown University, Center for Fluid Mechanics: Information about research projects, people and more. A very nice site !
Caltech, Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories: Bluff body flows; Vortex methods; Combustion; Shock waves; Other projects in fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, and jet propulsion. Information on faculty, students and seminars at GALCIT. Short summaries for all current research projects, more extensive information on some.
Center for Turbulence Research: A research consortium for fundamental study of turbulent flows. It is jointly operated by Stanford University and NASA Ames Research Center. Information about research projects and associated scientists and organizations. You can also find a lot of full-text publicatios available directly online - nice!
Clark Atlanta University, Computation and Modeling Laboratory: High performace computing for free-surface flows, large-scale parallel finite element simulations. The web-site includes a research summary, project descriptions , list of members, publications and sponsors.
Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: A small CFD research group working with heat transfer in heat exchangers, multiphase flow, and direct numerical simulations of buoyancy driven flows. The HEATX CFD code for 3-D simulation of heat exchangers and the WING program for 2-D panel simulation of multi-element airfoil sections are available. The HEATX code includes sub-models for turbulence, leakage, fouling, baffles, shell-side and tube-side flows, and a lagrangian particle method for more general problems in reactors that might involve drop evaporation, condensation, and chemical reactions. Their objectives are basic research with an applied slant. The web page shows example results, an outline of the methodologies used, and more contacts.
Computational Thermo-Fluids Group: Working with numerical simulation of complex transport phenomena ranging from solidification and materials processing to membrane and sail aerodynamics; from Stokes flow, (creeping flow) to high Mach number turbulent reacting flows. Information about the people involved in the various research activities.
Florida State University, Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, CFD Group: Working with unsteady flows with large scale separation, computational combustion, acoustics and unsteady biofluid mechanics. Information about research programs and people.
George Mason University, Institute for Computational Science and Informatics, CFD Group: Latest trends in grid generation, reactive flows, CFD/CSD coupled codes. Group Description, current projects, publications.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Group: Computatational Fluid Dynamics, with emphasis on hydraulic and environmental flows.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Fluid Dynamics Research Center: Information about facilities.
Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research: Turbulent and Shear Flows, Vortex Dynamics, Ship Hydrodynamics, CFD, Hydraulics. Information about current research programs and the senior research staff.
Iowa State University, Computational Fluid Dynamics Center: Research personnel, courses, images, information and CFD links at Iowa State University.
Kettering University, Computational Plasma Dynamics Laboratory: Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element methods, Electric Propulsion, External and Internal Flow, Solar Physics, Turbulence, Vehicle deicing defogging. The homepage provides the information about the people in the group and their computational research activities.
Michigan State University, Mechanical Engineering, CFD Lab: Automotive research, physical modeling, large eddy simulation, multi-phase flow, material processing, geometry modeling and grid generation, computational aeroacoustics, parallel computing,high-order methods. The web-site presents research projects and capabilities.
Mississippi State University, Eng. Research Center for Computational Field Simulation: Focuses primarily on CFS with a heavy emphasis in CFD. Grid generation, visualization,algorithms, and more! Information about research, laboratories, education, publications and more. Not only CFD things.
MIT, Computational Aerospace Sciences Laboratory: A small research laboratory in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Working with parallel computers, visualization, internal and external flows, fluid-structure interaction and optimization. Information about personnel, software and some publications.
Ohio State University, Fluids Group: Information about faculty and research areas.
Ohio Supercomputer Center, CFD: Not really a home page, just a description of what they are doing.
Penn State University, Aerospace Engineering: Information about education, research programs, facilities and more.
Penn State University, Mechanical Engineering: A huge site with information about personnel, facililties and research.
Princeton University, MAE, CFD Lab for Engineering Analysis and Design (LEAD): Numerical analysis of complex fluid flows using high performance computers. Headed by Prof. Jameson and Prof. Martinelli ! Information about people, research and some publications. Still not very complete.
Princeton University, MAE, Gas Dynamics Lab: Research in high Re pipe flows, Taylor-Couette flows, combustion and mixing, compressible turbulence and transition in supersonic flows. Information about people, research and facilities. Looks good.
Princeton University, MAE - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Has several research programs related to CFD and fluid flow. Information about events, people, education and research.
Princeton University, MAE, Moody Hydrodynamics Lab: Not much information yet (18/10 1995).
Rice University, Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling (T*AFSM): T*AFSM is an inter-institutional group of researchers focusing on development of advanced computational methods and tools for flow simulation and modeling. The web site gives research highlights for "Targeted Challenges" and many other complex, real-world applications, all displayed with graphics and brief description of advanced computational methods used. Internship programs based on challenging problems and use of advanced computational methods and hardware.
Rutgers University, Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab: Most sections still under construction (14/6 1996).
Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering: A very large department. Both the Applied Mechanics Division and the Thermosciences Division works with CFD related things. Information about research, personnel, publications, courses and more.
Texas A&M University, Computational Mechanics Laboratory: Research primarily in the areas of mechanics of fluids and solids and thermodynamics. Work carried out is in the area of computational modeling of viscoelastic fluid flow for polymer processing, finite elasticity and plasticity to study large deformation materials processing applications like superplasticity and defects in semiconductor materials. The Lab is supervised by Prof. J.N Reddy, who holds the Oscar S Wyatt Jr. chair in Mechanical Engineering. Summary of the various areas of research carried on in the Lab.
Texas Tech University, Mechanical Engineering: Automobile aerodynamics is the main area of research in this laboratory. Acoustics effect of fluid fluid interaction is also being studied. Graduate students pages, Abstracts of Publications and some Pictures are avilable.
The George Washington University, Flow Simulations and Analysis Group: Information on current research in the area of turbulent and transitional flows, Cartesian grid methods, biofluid mechanics, turbomachinery flows, microfluidic actuators, active flow control, fluid-structure interaction and biomimetic propulsion. The website includes a list of research personnel, affliates and publications.
University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, CFD Lab: Fluid dynamics of vortices, turbulence and hydrodynamic stability in geophysical and astrophysical settings. Numerical studies most often use spectral methods. Links to project descriptions, movies, publications.
University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics Lab: Experiments related to fluid mechanics. Information about staff, students, research and more.
University of California, Davis, CFD Center: Research in heat transfer, combustion, turbulent large eddy simulation, grid generation, solution adaptive gridding and more. Founded in 1992. Information about people and courses.
University of California Irvine, Mech. & Aerosp., Multiphase Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics: Research related to droplet and spray vaporization and combustion, liquid-metal droplet solidification in materials processing, aerosol condensation and liquid atomization. Information about research and people.
University of California, Los Angeles, MANE Department, CFD Lab: Has three groups working with turbulence, hypersonic and computational aerodynamics and combustion. Information about research, personnel and more. Some groups have full-text publications available online!
University of California, San Diego, CFD Research Group: DNS of Turbulent Compressible Flows. Current projects includes: Combustion, Sound Generation, Stratified Flows and Compressibility Effects. The site gives references, simulation results and numerical methods.
University of Colorado at Denver, Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM): Working with CFD applications. Areas of research include porous media flow, iterative methods, finite element methods, parallell computations and adaptivity. The web site gives a brief summary of their research and personnel. You can find further information in the personal home pages.
University of Florida, Computational Thermo-Fluids Group: Research includes: Shock Induced Combustion, Gas-Turbine Combustor Flow Modeling, and Aeroelastic Analysis of a Membrane Wing in Viscous Flows. This site contains links to Professors, Post Docs., and Graduate Students working within this group along with a description of their research.
University of Houston, Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence: Links to the Aerodynamics and Turbulence Laboratory and the Vortex Technology Center , where you can find information about research, peronnel, facilities and more
University of Illinois, Continuous Casting Consortium: The Consortium develops comprehensive mathematical models of the continuous casting of steel slabs. The site give information about the Consortium's objectives, members, projects and publications.
University of Illinois, Large Scale Computational Fluid Science Group: CFD in both geophysical and engineering applications. Basic mechanisms at work in transitional and turbulent flows. Information about people, research areas and publications.
University of Illinois, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics: Information about research, personnel, courses and more.
University of Kentucky, Mechanical Engineering, Advanced CFD Group: Computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer and combustion; numerical analysis and dynamical systems. Emphasis on developing and applying methods for large-eddy simulation of incompressible turbulent flows, especially those involving additional physics. The web site gives an overview of personnel and resources, descriptions of current research, publications & lecture notes. A very nice web-site with many papers available in pdf format!
University of Maryland, Aerospace Engineering, Rotorcraft CFD and Acoustics Group: CFD applied to helicopter rotors. Acoustics effects. Information about personell and research projects.
University of Maryland, Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel: Introduction to the facilities, personnel and more - nice !
University of Maryland, Mechanical Engineering, CFD Lab: Turbulence and LES simulations. Information about personnel, facilities and research activities.
University of Maryland, Mechanical Engineering, Turbulence Research Lab: Information about personnel and facilities. A bit thin.
University of Michigan, W.M. Keck CFD Laboratory: Algorithm development, convergence acceleration, extended hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, non-dissipative methods, solution-adaptive grids, vortex breakdown. Information about research activities, people, facilities, courses and more. Many nice images !
University of Minnesota, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics: CFD projects related to DNS of the motion of particles in liquids and finite element simulation of flow problems.
University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer: Research in convective heat and mass transfer, transitional and turbulent flows, thermal biomedicine, two-phase flows, flow control and more. Information about current research, people and labs.
University of Notre Dame, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering: Research in aerospace sciences, thermal & fluid sciences. Information about people, research projects facilities and more. Lots of well structured information.
University of Southern California, Aerospace Engineering, Fluid Mechanics: Traditionally strong in the study of fluid dynamics and turbulence, has more recently expanded in the areas of CFD and partially ionized nonequilibrium gas flows. The Center for Modeling and Simulation are working mainly with CFD. Information about research, applications and personnel.
University of Tennessee - Knoxville, CFD Laboratory: In short, they work with: Computational Mechanics, Numerical Heat Transfer, Ventillation (CFD), Free Surface Hydrodynamics (CFD), Turbulence Modelling, Finite Element Methods. The web site gives an overview of the department, research, personnel and more. You can find many full-text publication available directly online. They also offer graduate courses over the internet. This is a very nice web site!
University of Texas, Advanced Computational Engineering Lab: A small group working with 3D viscous flow simulations using unstructured grids. Has information about people and publications available online !
University of Texas at Arlington, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CFD Lab: A small department working with LES and hybrid RANS/LES methods. They also develop numercial schemes and study blade-vortex information. The web-site gives further information about current research project, personnel and includes a list of publications (some available directly online).
University of Texas, Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab: Research topics related to the numerical approximation of transport processes. Summaries of research projects (including supercomputing, parallel iterative solver development, and semiconductor research), bios of lab personnel, and a range of ftp offerings.
University of Utah, CFD Lab: Working with turbulent mixing and the linear eddy model. Information about research and personnel.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Engine Research Center: A U.S. Army Center of Excellence devoted to fundamental research on spark ignition and diesel engines. The ERC's projects involve fluid mechanics, heat transfer, combustion, sprays, emissions and health effects, lubrication, and powertrain systems. Particular emphasis has been placed on the application of optical diagnostic methods to engines, and computational fluid modeling of engine processes.
Utah State University, Mechanical and Aerospace Eng., CFD Lab: Applied CFD; wing-tip vortex flows, vortex breakdown, mixed convection, HVAC applications. The site gives information about personnel, facilities, interests and results.
Virginia Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics Group: Turbomachinery flows, 3-D CFD, Turbulence modelling, Supersonic inlets, Jet mixing. Pictures and descriptions of teaching and research projects. See also the Mechanical Engineering Homepage.
West Virginia University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CFD Lab: Working a lot with LES, dynamic turbulence combustion and multi-phase flows. Thje web-site gives information about personnel, projects and more.