The consortium's objectives are:
● Formulate, validate and implement advanced computational tools operating efficiently with extremely large databases for system level predictions.
● Develop high-fidelity, multiphysics computational approaches for coupled thermal-fluid-structural systems incorporating computational fluid & structural mechanics and high temperature reactivity.
● Deploy leading-edge computational tools from SNL through integrative curriculum changes to develop a sustainable approach to workforce needs trained in advanced M&S.
The Rio Grande CARES research efforts are divided into the following interrelated research thrusts :
Multiphysics simulations
Agile Computing
Data-Driven Engineering
High-temperature reactivity
Thermal-Fluid Science
The research thrusts 1-3 are designed to address the cross-cutting themes associated with multiphysics/multiscale couplings and achieve the second objective. The research thrusts 4-5 will address the issues related to core physics and are designed to achieve the first objective, as noted above. Interdisciplinary research projects are designed to answer the following questions:
How can we incorporate materials and thermal mechanics results with fluid flow models to predict reactor behavior through time better?
How can techniques for constraint propagation and uncertainty estimates be adapted?
How can we develop new techniques for analyzing microscale and atomistic scale physics to determine media properties at scales from centimeters to meters?
What are the HPC challenges in advanced M&S?
What are the applied mathematics challenges?