An aerodynamic computer modeling team from the University of Melbourne was recently awarded simulation-running time on a supercomputer belonging to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The team, led by Computational Mechanics Chair Professor Richard Sandberg, will use the supercomputer access time to simulate turbulent flows in jet engines as part of their research, according to the University of Melbourne's website.
"How can we make airplanes that use less fuel? Researchers @UniMelb are going to be using the supercomputers @OLCFGOV to simulate air flows in jet engines that could be used in more energy-efficient airplanes,’’ the DOE Office of Science said in a tweet.
Summit debuted in 2018 and at that time was the most powerful computer in the world.
This is the third year in a row that the University of Melbourne team has been awarded simulation running time through the INCITE program, according to the University of Melbourne's website.
The time awarded to the team is equal to 410 million core hours on systems belonging to Australia, according to the University of Melbourne website.
“To put that into context, it’s close to what the Australian national computational merit allocation scheme for 2022 will award to all of Australia’s research computing, across all research domains,” Professor Sandberg said, according to the University of Melbourne website. “It’s equivalent to a multi-million dollar research award.”
