Embedding Computational Fluid Dynamics Industrial and Research-Scale Projects Using High-Performance Computing in an Upper-Level Engineering Physics Course
Steven Ferguson, Aric Gillispie, Adam Dorety, Evan C. Lemley, Matthew Benton, Shahram Riahinezhad, Fadi Abdulrahim, Travis Locke, Tyler Olheiser · 2016
Abstract Poster: This poster focuses on the results of projects in a combined senior level-graduate level course (enrollment of 12) in fluid dynamics at the U__, a predominantly undergraduate institution (PUI) . A high performance computing (HPC) cluster, B___ has been deployed recently at the U__. The first author operates and administers the B__ cluster and serves as instructor of the fluid dynamics course, providing an opportunity to advance the course outcomes to include a high impact project that takes advantage of distributed computing. The goal of the projects is to expose students to HPC “at scale.” The projects require the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) on a HPC system; intentionally exposing students to a new way of doing things. The poster will encapsulate the quantitative and visual results of the projects and examine the impact on students of the projects.