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High-performance computing and visualization of unsteady turbulent flows

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The history of high-performance computing in turbulent flows is reviewed and their recent topics in industrial use are addressed. Special attention is paid to the validity of the method in flow visualization, and three-dimensional unsteady simulation is focused. Seemingly fundamental CFD technique for 3-D turbulence simulation has been well developed recently, but its practical use as an industrial tool has not yet become popular. An effort to close a wide gap between fundamental and practical use of scientific computer simulation is introduced through the national project promoting computational science and its development in industries of the next generation.

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  1. Japan Automobile Research Institute and University of Tokyo, Shiba-Daimon 1-1-30, Minato-ku, 105-0012, Tokyo, Japan

    Kobayashi T.

  2. Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo-shi, 060-8628, Hokkaido, Japan

    Tsubokura M. & Oshima N.

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Toshio Kobayashi: He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Department, the University of Tokyo in 1970. After completion his Ph.D. program, he has been faculty member of the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) University of Tokyo, and since 1986 was a professor of Fluid engineering at University of Tokyo. In 2002, he was leader of National Project of “Frontier Simulation Software for Industrial Science”. Currently he is a member of Science Council of Japan and President of Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI). His research interests are numerical analysis of turbulence, especially Large Eddy Simulation and Particle Image Velocimetry. He serves as the President of Visualization Society of Japan (VSJ), Executive Vice President of Automobile Engineer of Japan (JSAE) and President of the Japan Socciety of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).

Makoto Tsubokura: He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1997 from the University of Tokyo. He was a visiting researcher of the department of chemical engineering at the Imperial College London (1998-1999), a lecturer of Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo institute of Technology (1999-2003), an associate professor at the department of mechanical engineering and intelligent systems, the University of Electro-Communications (2003-2007). Since 2007 he is an associate professor at the graduate school of engineering, Hokkaido University. His main research interests are the development of turbulence simulation technique and its application to engineering problems. Currently he is interested in the development of vehicle aerodynamic simulator for the next generation.

Nobuyuki Oshima: He received his PhD (Eng) in Marine Engineering in 1989. He worked in in University of Tokyo as a lecturer (1989-1991), an associate professor (1991-2000) of Institute of Industrial Science and of Center for Information Technology, (2000-2005), then became a professor of Division of Mechanical and Space Eng., Hokkaido University. His current research interests are computational fluid dynamics, especially for simulaiton of turbulence and combustion.

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Kobayashi, T., Tsubokura, M. & Oshima, N. High-performance computing and visualization of unsteady turbulent flows. J Vis 11, 23–32 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03181909

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