Fluids & C°

COOLFluiD (Computational Object-Oriented Libraries for Fluid Dynamics) is a component- based framework for scientific high-performance computing, CFD and multi-physics applications, originally developed at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.

COOLFluiD is a open end collaborative platform providing a powerful set of tools for:

• solving toy or complex applications with existing numerical solvers;
• building totally new or customized models/solvers with arbitrary data-structures;
• easily defining reusable components (e.g. algorithms, models, BCs, wrappers);
• building virtual prototypes and easily test new algorithms or models;
• interfacing or coupling other libraries/solvers to tackle more complex problems;
• large scale simulations.

The COOLFluiD platform is an open source and the code is downloadable from Github.

Skywin est le pôle de compétitivité labellisé par la Région wallonne pour les secteurs de l'aéronautique et du spatial.

• Intelligent Cooling System

The TATEF2 aim is to create an experimental database to be used for design tools validation, in order to evaluate the unsteady effects of the inlet swirls, of the enhanced hot spots and of the rotor platform cooling in the high pressure stages of gas turbines with strong shock waves and a new architecture of low pressure vane which combines structural struts.

The Industrial Partners will validate and assess their design tools against the experimental results.

LAPCAT II is a logical follow-up of the previous, co-funded EC-projec LAPCAT whose objective was to reduce the duration of antipodal flights (that is, flights between two diametrically opposite points on the globe) to less than two to four hours. Among the several vehicles studied, only two novel concepts – for Mach five and Mach eight cruise flight – are retained in the new program. The project, co-funded by the European Commission under the theme of air transportation, will last for four years and involves 16 partners representing six European member states.