Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Computer Simulation Technology research team at VTT studies and develops software platforms related to the application of computational methods in industry. The mission is to accelerate the deployment of modelling and simulation. One main product of the team is large scale process simulation software called Apros. Currently a new operating environment for different simulation tools is developed. This open source platform is called Simantics.

During my fellowship, I collaborated with prof. Ole Morten Aamo and his PhD student Milan Milovanovic. Our project dealt with finding strategies for vortex shedding control around cylinders in 2D space domain. My research and responsibility was to make software analysis and implementation of optimal software codes for the solved problems (by means of performance, maintainability and extendibility) to allow us to simulate and verify using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solvers our control strategy proposals.

The My Pulverized Coal Combustion is a realtime interactive application for modelling and analysis of combustion in industry boilers. It is based on a simple fluid simulator, which allows realtime simulation of air flow inside the boiler area. The computation of combustion process is maintained using special particle system, which is by its nature suitable for both visualisation and simulation of the combustion processes inside the boilers. The application is suited especially for interactive design of boilers and for education purposes.