Applications and Perspectives of Industrial CFD in Portugal

We aim to provide an accurate representation of industrial CFD activities in Portugal. For this purpose we review some work undertaken at blueCAPE. The presentation is thus comprised of three sections: basic description of physical models and numerical discretization techniques; application examples from industrial applications; hardware developments and their implications in CFD codes. The first section sets the context and the nomenclature for the examples that follow in broad technical and scientific terms. The second section puts forward some examples taken from a number of industrial problems that blueCAPE has addressed through CFD analysis. The third and final section discusses some of the implications that the widening gap between fine and coarse-grained parallelism imposed by hardware developments have on the current generation of commercial CFD codes. Questions will be taken.