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Modelling vortex flowfields by supercomputers with super-size memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Arthur Rizzi*
Affiliation:
FFA The Aeronautical Research Institute of SwedenBromma, Sweden

Summary

Propelled by the rapid advances in VLSI technology, supercomputers are now appearing with much larger real memory capacity than previously available. These new machines are expanding our ability to formulate very large-scale discrete models in order to discover non-linear dynamical flow behaviour. With a synergetic computational-analytical view point, we can begin to explore new and unexpected flow phenomena such as wave-like instabilities of vortices and even the onset of coherent large-scale turbulence brought about by vortex stretching.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1985 

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