High-Performance Computing (HPC)
With the advent of modern computing systems, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is becoming more and more affordable and accurate. We treat CFD as a primary research tool for exploring high-speed and reacting flows. Thus, an HPC cluster is under construction (expected online in Summer 2026) and will be expanded as the lab grows.
Hardware Specifications (320 cores across 5 compute nodes)
Head/storage node: AMD EPYC 4585PX (16C/32T) w/ storage RAID 0/1/5/6/10
Workstation (1): AMD Threadripper 9980X (64C)
Compute nodes (4): Dell R7525 servers with dual AMD EPYC 7542 (64C)
Interconnect: Mellanox Infiniband FDR 56Gbps for low-latency parallel computation
Software
MATLAB/Python
Ansys products (Fluent, ICEM, Chemkin Pro)
ESI OpenFOAM
Cantera
In-house trajectory optimization (multi-phase optimal control)