Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) on Mobile Devices.

This project is run by M. Opat, under the supervision of C. Kehl, and in collaboration with J. Köllermeier. It is a collaboration project with the Computational & Numerical Mathematics group (at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen).

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of ocean hydrodynamics and transport find a lot of applications in the modern world, especially when considering how pollutants are transported by ocean currents. Be it oil- and gas plumes on offshore rigs, macro- and microplastic particulates, biota and organic matter as food as well as bloom-tides, or radionuclides pollutants – where ‘stuff’ is transported by the oceans is of core environmental concern for UN Sustainability Goals, the EU’s Pathway to Sustainability and the European Green-Deal.

Running those simulations is usually thought-of as a computationally-involved process, requiring supercomputers and cluster to do. Yet, even mobile devices get increasingly powerful in their computational capabilities to run gridded Eulerian simulations or exclusively Lagrangian particle systems. This project aims to identify and shift the capability envelope for computing and visualising Lagrangian fluid transport on mobile devices.