Activities at Metacomp:
  • CFD code development
  • Computational Aero-Acoustics code development
  • Meshing software development
  • Development of Electrostatic Paint Deposition Code (ED)
  • Technical Support
  • Technical Consulting 
The list below shows a selection of Metacomp personnel's past contributions to CFD:

    CFD Problem

     

    Solution

     

    Metacomp Personnel's Contribution

    External aerodynamics of simple aircraft configurations

     

    Body fitted grids

     

    First upwind scheme for full potential, Euler & Navier Stokes on body fitted grids, characteristics theory for boundary conditions

     

    External aerodynamics of multi-body complex aircraft

     

     

    Zonal body-fitted

    Overlaid/chimera

    Unstructured

     

    Upwind schemes for zonal boundaries

    Conservation-preserving interpolation

    Multi-dimensional interpolation, upwind schemes

    Bodies in relative motion

     

    Zonal body-fitted
    with sliding interfaces

     

    Multi-dimensional interpolation with conservation preservation for sliding meshes

    High speed flows

     

    Shock capturing

     

    Riemann solvers
    TVD, UNO, ENO schemes

     

    Low speed flows

     

     

     

    Preconditioning

     

     

     

     

    Multiple speed preconditioners for mixed flows

    Mass-balance acceleration

    Detonation waves

     

    Detonation wave capturing

     

    Detonation wave speed stabilizer

    Non-Newtonian flow for biomedical applications

     

    Pressure-based method for non-Newtonian flows

     

    Algorithms for non-Newtonian flow simulation

    Turbulence

     

    Modeling of steady and unsteady turbulent flow

     

    Topography-parameter free models

    Non-linear models

    Second generation hybrid RANS/LES

    Spray systems

     

    Multi-phase capabilities

     

    Eulerian and Lagrangian multi-phase capabilities