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    • A Chimera method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations 

      Houzeaux, Guillaume; Eguzkitza, Beatriz; Aubry, Romain; Owen, Herbert; Vázquez, Mariano (John Wiley & Sons, 2014-05-30)
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      The Chimera method was developed three decades ago as a meshing simplification tool. Different components are meshed independently and then glued together using a domain decomposition technique to couple the equations ...
    • A Chimera method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations 

      Houzeaux, Guillaume; Eguzkitza, Beatriz; Aubry, Romain; Owen, Herbert; Vázquez Arenas, M. Benita (2014-05-30)
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      The Chimera method was developed three decades ago as a meshing simplification tool. Different components are meshed independently and then glued together using a domain decomposition technique to couple the equations ...
    • A low-dissipation finite element scheme for scale resolving simulations of turbulent flows 

      Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Houzeaux, Guillaume; Owen, Herbert; Chrysokentis, Giorgios; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María (2019-08-01)
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      The present work extends the conservative convective scheme proposed by Charnyi et al. (2017) [13], originally formulated for mixed finite elements and tested in laminar flows, to equal order finite elements. A non-incremental ...
    • Alya: Multiphysics engineering simulation toward exascale 

      Vázquez, Mariano; Houzeaux, Guillaume; Koric, Seid; Artigues, Antoni; Aguado-Sierra, Jazmin; Arís, Ruth; Mira Martínez, Daniel; Calmet, Hadrien; Cucchietti, Fernando; Owen, Herbert; Taha, Ahmed; Burness, Evan D.; Cela, José M.; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Elsevier, 2016-02-01)
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      Alya is a multi-physics simulation code developed at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). From its inception Alya code is designed using advanced High Performance Computing programming techniques to solve coupled problems ...
    • Alya: Multiphysics engineering simulation toward exascale 

      Vázquez, Mariano; Houzeaux, Guillaume; Koric, Seid; Artigues, Antoni; Aguado Sierra, Jazmin; Arís Sánchez, Ruth; Mira Martínez, Daniel; Calmet, Hadrien; Cucchietti, Fernando; Owen, Herbert; Taha, Ahmed; Dering Burness, Evan; Cela Espín, José M.; Valero Cortés, Mateo (Elsevier, 2016-05)
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      Alya is a multi-physics simulation code developed at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). From its inception Alya code is designed using advanced High Performance Computing programming techniques to solve coupled problems ...
    • Enriched finite element approach for modeling discontinuous electric field in multi-material problems 

      Narváez Muñoz, Christian; Hashemi, Mohammad Reza; Ryzhakov, Pavel; Pons Prats, Jordi; Owen, Herbert (Elsevier, 2023-11-01)
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      This work is devoted to developing an efficient and robust technique for accurately capturing the electric field in multi-material problems. The formulation is based on the finite element method enriched by the introduction ...
    • Enriched finite element formulation for discontinuous electric field in electrohydrodynamic problems 

      Narváez Muñoz, Christian; Hashemi, Mohammad Reza; Ryzhakov, Pavel; Pons Prats, Jordi; Owen, Herbert (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Remote Sensing, Antennas, Microwaves and Superconductivity Group (CommSensLab), 2022)
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      Although purely analytical models can provide rough qualitative predictions in the field of electrohydrodynamics (EHD), more sophisticated numerical approaches are necessary to quantitatively study the involved phenomena [1, ...
    • Heat Transfer Effects on a Fully Premixed Methane Impinging Flame 

      Mira Martínez, Daniel; Zavala, Miguel; Avila, Matías; Owen, Herbert; Cajas García, Juan Carlos; Vázquez, Mariano; Houzeaux, Guillaume (Springer, 2016-01-09)
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      A numerical assessment of different thermal conditions for an impinging flame configuration is investigated using large-eddy simulation. The cases of study correspond to a turbulent methane flame at equivalence ratio ER = ...
    • Heterogeneous CPU/GPU co-execution of CFD simulations on the POWER9 architecture: Application to airplane aerodynamics 

      Borrell, Ricard; Dosimont, Damien; Garcia Gasulla, Marta; Houzeaux, Guillaume; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Mehta, Vishal; Owen, Herbert; Vázquez, Mariano; Oyarzun Altamirano, Guillermo (Elsevier, 2020-06)
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      High fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations are generally associated with large computing requirements, which are progressively acute with each new generation of supercomputers. However, significant research ...
    • High-Performance Computing: Do’s and Dont’s 

      Houzeaux, Guillaume; Borrell, Ricard; Fournier, Yvan; Garcia-Gasulla, Marta; Göbbert, Jens H.; Hachem, Elie; Mehta, Vishal; Mesri, Youssef; Owen, Herbert; Vázquez, Mariano (InTech, 2018-02-14)
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      Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the main field of computational mechanics that has historically benefited from advances in high-performance computing. High-performance computing involves several techniques to make a ...
    • Including in Situ Visualization and Analysis in PDI 

      Witzler, Christian; Zavala Aké, J. Miguel; Sierociński, Karol; Owen, Herbert (Springer Nature, 2021)
      Conference lecture
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      The goal of this work was to integrate in situ possibilities into the general-purpose code-coupling library PDI [1]. This is done using the simulation code Alya as an example. Here, an open design is taken into account to ...
    • Large eddy simulation for automotive aerodynamics with Alya 

      Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Chrysokentis, Georgios; Gomez, Samuel; Owen, Herbert (2018-07-09)
      Conference lecture
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      The prodigious potential offered by the ever-growing computing infrastructure is fostering the use of large eddy simulation for automotive aerodynamics. This approach, which resolves the larger dynamically important eddies ...
    • Mesh generation, sizing and convergence for onshore and offshore wind farm Atmospheric Boundary Layer flow simulation with actuator discs 

      Gargallo Peiró, Abel; Avila, Matias; Owen, Herbert; Prieto-Godino, Luis; Folch, Arnau (Elsevier, 2018-12)
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      A new mesh generation process for wind farm modeling is presented together with a mesh convergence and sizing analysis for wind farm flow simulations. The generated meshes are tailored to simulate Atmospheric Boundary Layer ...
    • Recent ship hydrodynamics developments in the parallel two-fluid flow solver Alya 

      Owen, Herbert; Houzeaux, Guillaume; Samaniego, Cristobal; Lesage, Anne C.; Vázquez, Mariano (Elsevier, 2013-07-10)
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      CFD modeling of turbulent free surface flows has become an important tool in the design of ship hulls. A two-fluid flow solver that can predict the flow pattern, free surface shape and the forces on the ship hull is ...
    • The ALEX17 diurnal cycles in complex terrain benchmark 

      Sanz Rodrigo, Javier; Santos, Pedro; Chávez Arroyo, R; Avila, Matias; Cavar, Dalibor; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Owen, Herbert; Li, R; Tromeur, Eric (IOP Publishing, 2021)
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      The NEWA ALEX17 experiment was conducted with the objective of characterizing the wind conditions upstream of the Alaiz Test Site for the validation of flow models. From the intensive operational period, a case study has ...
    • Wall‐modeled large‐eddy simulation in a finite element framework 

      Owen, Herbert; Chrysokentis, Georgios; Avila, Matias; Mira Martínez, Daniel; Houzeaux, Guillaume; Cajas, Juan Carlos; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol (Wiley, 2020-01)
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      This work studies the implementation of wall modeling for large‐eddy simulation in a finite element context. It provides a detailed description of how the approach used by the finite volume and finite differences communities ...