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HPC Simulations Help Researchers Peer Inside Combustion Processes

Using Hazel Hen, the team ran DNS simulations of to improve efficiency and reduce pollution in combustion engines. Image Credit: Eray Inanc, Uni Duisburg.
Using Hazel Hen, the team ran DNS simulations of to improve efficiency and reduce pollution in combustion engines. Image: Eray Inanc, University of Duisburg.

University of Duisburg-Essen researchers use HPC to model fuel jet flames in unprecedented detail, verifying experiments done by the German Aerospace Agency.

At its core, combustion is one of humanity’s oldest technologies. While this burning process helped the earliest humans cook food and defend themselves from predators, today’s combustion processes move cars down the road, help aircraft take flight, and govern countless industrial processes for making everything from tires to the white pigment used in furniture and paints. Ever since the industrial revolution, humanity has continued to harness the power of controlled burning to incorporate into new technologies.