Petascale Computations for Complex Turbulent Flows

该奖项提供差旅资金，以支持Blue Waters项目团队和湍流研究人员团队之间的技术协调，以探索用于Blue Waters系统的湍流模拟代码的准备情况。如果成功，预计该程序将用于对反应性湍流剪切流和分层地球物理湍流动力学的高级研究。对这种动力学有更深入的了解，可能有助于提高预测和控制湍流造成的污染物扩散的能力，为设计减少阻力的车辆(如飞机、火车、轮船)提供更好的工具，为提高效率和减少污染物而设计燃烧系统，并改进地球物理流动模拟中混合和输送现象的模型。

This award provides travel funds to support technical coordination between the Blue Waters project team and a team of turbulence researchers to explore the readiness of a turbulence simulation code for use on the Blue Waters system. If successful it is anticipated that the code will be used for advanced research into the dynamics of reactive turbulent shear flows and of stratified geophysical turbulence. A greater understanding of such dynamics may lead to improved capacity to predict and control pollutant dispersal by turbulence, better tools for the design of vehicles (e.g. aircraft, trains, ships) to reduce drag, for the design of combustion systems to increase efficiency and reduce pollutants, and to improved models for mixing and transport phenomena in geophysical flow modeling.