Details of the research Project

The research work, based on molecular/particle based methods to develop/validate/perform dusty gas flow dynamics for applications such as planetary landing and beyond. The code that needs to be developed for dusty gas flows is by coupling the in-house flow solver with yet to be developed discrete element method (DEM) solver. The method used to solve the non-equilibrium flow encountered in the high speed aerothermodynamic environment is particle-based method called Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method (DSMC). The present in-house DSMC code called Non-equilibrium Flow Solver (NFS) will be used for the required task. The scalability of the in-house NFS code is reported in our published article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.10.006. A fully functional solver would help to perform efficient real-time dusty gas flow dynamics during planetary landing and modelling of other geo-physical situations such as avalanches and landslides etc.