On the afternoon of November 3, 2016, Charles Hirsch, a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB), gave a lecture entitled “The Challenges of Present and Future industrial CFD” at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). The lecture was the 88th session of SUSTech Lecture. Shan Xiaowen, Chair of the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, SUSTech, presided over the lecture. 

Charles Hirsch, Chair of the Department of Fluid Mechanics, Free University of Brussels, is a world-renowned expert at turbomachinery aerodynamics and CFD, European Chairman of the EU-China Aviation Cooperation Committee and founder of NUMECA International.

Hirsch introduced the development of industrial computational fluid dynamics (ICFD) in recent years, as well as the industrial demands and application background of ICFD in the new situation, including conjugate heat transfer (CHT) and fluid-structure interaction (FSI) and multiphase flow in combustion, aeroacoustics, coupled flow and noise.

Hirsch introduced the application direction of ICFD, such as high simulation, adaptive massively parallel hardware, multidisciplinary optimization and uncertainty quantification. He analyzed the full process of ICFD from grid generation to advanced algorithm, and showed the strong capacity of Autogrid5 for grid processing and computing through some examples.

Hirsh looked into the future of ICFD, including uncertainty qualification, high-order computing and substitution model, such as Lattice Boltzmann Equation.

In the Q&A session, Hirsh patiently answered students’ questions about Autogrid 5, uncertainty quantification, etc.