Low-Mach Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in an Internal Combustion Engine

In this video from PASC18, Saumil Patel from Argonne describes his poster on engine combustion simulation. “This work marks a milestone achievement in using Nek5000, a highly-scalable computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver, to capture turbulent flow and thermal fields inside realistic engine geometries. In the context of an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) framework, several algorithms have been developed and integrated into Nek5000 in order overcome the computational challenges associated with moving boundaries (i.e. valves and pistons).”