ICE

Research focus

PUT belongs to the leading 5 technical universities in Poland with about 14200 students. The university and institute has vital scientific exchange with other European universities and is a member of CAESAR association grouping leading European technical universities.

The CAD oriented students of Mechanical Departments are finding jobs in the automotive industry in Poznan. The Combustion Engines Institute and CAD Laboratory provides expertise in computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods, finite element method. The emphasis of the research is in aeroelastics, eigenanalysis of wake flow, stability problems, Low Dimensional Analysis and flow control.

Interests in the 6^th Framework Programme

The scientific interests of PUT- ICE can be classified in three categories.

The fundamental research of fluid flows like stability, flow control, low dimensional modeling serve better understanding of physics of fluids. The research of this kind ale closely related to the practical demands and serve for better understanding of phenomena like turbulence, coherent structures or transition. For example Low Dimensional Analysis serves in rapid evaluation of large flow problems. This knowledge can be the necessary scientific interface for novel practical approaches as met in EU projects (like for example OPERA, ALLCOM or SUPERSONIC).The unstructured CFD computations based on FEM are carried out since early 80'th with emphasis on novel algorithms like preconditioned eigenvalue computations.

This kind of activity represents the second branch of activity in PUT - ICE. It will concentrate on algorithm development, integration of existing codes and methods in area of CFD and multidisciplinary problems like aeroelasticity. The background for this activity is the EU project TAURUS, devoted to aeroelastic problems on unstructured grids. PUT - ICE adopted there its software to full scale structural computation and dynamic coupling with DLR Tau Code. The experience gained in this project will enable stepping into active aero-servo-elastic effects like planed in SUPERSONIC. In particular it can be used for evaluation of active influence of the modal behavior of the structure or and virtual testing of new developed structures in aeroelastic regime. This can be performed with own MPI-able aeroelastic-oriented CSM codes coupled with external CFD programs. The use of in-house parallel CFD software is investigated. ICE will share and exchange numerical experience in common EU projects.

The third kind of activity of PUT - ICE is High Performance Computing oriented. PUT - ICE experience gained in parallel computation and hardware, based on HPC Integration Platform established by ICE and used by TAURUS partners assures adequate qualification for performing tasks in all computational projects of 6FP. This activity compromise all tasks, ranging from hardware and software establishing of parallel computers clusters up to MPI programming, domain decomposition on unstructured meshes and data exchange.

Current research projects

Technology Development for Aeroelastic Simulations on Unstructured Grids Taurus (G4RD-CT-2001-00403)

Human resources

Professors:

Marek Morzynski

Research associate (PhD):

Michal Nowak

Rafal Mostowski

Researcher: (PhD students, MSc) :

Piotr Posadzy

Michał Rychlik

Witold Stankiewicz

Robert Roszak

Grzegorz Osewski

Mariusz Markiewicz

Scientific and industrial co-operation

TU-Berlin,

IFMT-Toulouse,

Warsaw University of Technology

industrial partners of TAURUS consortium (Alenia, Airbus, EADS, Saab, Onera, DLR, NLR)