Invited Speakers and Presentation Abstracts

Keynote I: Wagdi G. Habashi, McGill University

A Frontier of Parallel CFD: Real Time in Flight Icing Simulation over Complete Aircraft

With the power of supercomputers increasing exponentially, there is an insatiable need for more advanced multi-disciplinary aerospace Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations. A particular current interest is the 3D viscous turbulent simulation of the highly nonlinear aspects of in-flight-icing. Recurring and recent incidents and accidents in that arena remind us that the icing problem, known since the Wright Brothers, is still not conquered. The presentation will illustrate through examples how HPC can effectively solve important engineering and safety problems of in-flight icing and will highlight the made-in-Canada tools developed through HPC for the international aircraft, helicopter, jet engines and flight simulators' industries.
Extended abstract can be found here.

Keynote II: Nikolas Provatas, McMaster University

The Role of HPC for Predictive Strategies in Alloy Design

The strength to weight ratio of emerging metal alloys is ultimately linked to the way microstructure is patterned during solidification and processing at the industrial level. Work on improving the microstructure-process-property relations has been largely empirical. As of late the accessibility of HPC and advanced numerical algorithms has made it possible to simulate the physics of complex phase transformations and microstructure formation at experimentally relevant conditions and parameters. This talk will review the success of combining recent continuum methods and HCP to quantitatively model solidification and solid-state transformation in alloys. Recent strategies for adapting such approaches for industrial use will also be discussed.