Group Stoter

Nearly all fluids that flow at engineering relevant scales behave chaotically; they are turbulent. Creating digital twins of such engineering systems thus requires tools that can predict the turbulent nature of the flow. In this group we challenge ourselves with the development of the mathematics, computational methods and software that is needed to accurately simulate turbulent flows at affordable computational cost.

To facilitate engineering design and scientific study, simulation software must balance accuracy and computational cost. Turbulent flow is so complex that the trade-off currently only permits either hugely expensive simulations (i.e., those performed on super computers), or simulations with significant difficiencies in the predictive quality. 

By adopting novel computational methods and reduced order models we work towards shifting this balance in the direction of accurate simulations with affordable computational expense. 

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" - G. Box