James Hawkes, postgraduate research student at the University of Southampton, presented his research on the scalability of parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes. His project on Massively-Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics is sponsored by the Dutch maritime research institute MARIN. Within this project ReFRESCO, a CFD code for fluid problems around …
Prof. Cheng started the seminar and briefed the audience on the history of Lloyds register. LR is a global charity with £1 Billion turnover and around 250 offices world wide which started as ship classification society. Currently offers a large variety of services such as engineering and business services with …
Jodie Walshe, Decision Support Manager for Engineering and Supply in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), gave a research seminar about the possibilities that computer modelling has to offer to many different aspects of the RNLI workings. He explained that the RNLI is funded by donations entirely, and it is …
Dr David Toal from the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre for Computational Engineering in Southampton recently gave a talk on turbine blade design in the presence of uncertainty and (despite a power outage in most of Southampton that afternoon) presented the associated design and research challenges. Dr Toal introduced the audience …
Presentation by Professor Jim Scanlan Computational engineering plays a huge role in aerospace design nowadays. For comparison, in the 1970s it was the job of a large number of draughtsmen to draw up the designs on paper which made changes to the design a really laborious task, whereas current designs …
Simulation of turbulent fluid flows is one of the oldest areas of computational modelling research. The seminar by Professor Richard Sandberg and Dr. Ati Sharma provided an introduction to modern turbulence simulation methods and associated challenges. The presentation was centered around the discussion of the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of …
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. It operates a 24/7 lifeboat service around the coast of the UK and republic of Ireland. It designs, supplies and supports lifeboats and related plant and equipment for over 200 lifeboat stations. Jodie Walsh’s presentation was an introduction to the …
Nick Granger Brown, Mike Elder and Alex Kay shared an overview of computational modelling used at Seagate Systems Ltd UK to support development engineering, continuous improvement and future technology and growth. Simulation of mechanical stress and vibrations, and heat transfer and cooling were described in more detail. The validation of …