FUN4D: A New Paradigm for Time-Dependent Simulations

Conventional CFD time advancement is inherently serial, one step at a time, creating a scalability barrier. This barrier limits the ability of long‑duration unsteady simulations to fully utilize modern exascale systems. The FUN4D project aims to develop an unsteady-flow solver that exploits temporal concurrency and space-time grid adaptation, breaking through the scalability limits of traditional time-marching approaches and enabling scalable, efficient, high-fidelity, long-duration aerodynamic simulations

This project aims to develop an unsteady-flow solver that exploits temporal concurrency and space-time grid adaptation, breaking through the scalability limits of traditional time-marching approaches and enabling scalable, efficient, high-fidelity, long-duration aerodynamic simulations. Specific target outcomes include: Generate 4D unstructured simplicial space-time grids. Develop FUN4D, a space‑time unstructured-grid solver for high-fidelity unsteady flow simulations. Demonstrate superior scalability, accuracy and efficiency relative to traditional time-marching methods for representative aerodynamic configurations.

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