Showcases: our consulting activities
We develop the software Palabos, which is used by experts in many fields to tackle the complexity of modern CFD. Our support formulas are available to help you and your team get started with Palabos if you are planning on using it as an internal development tool.
In targeted applications areas, our team is also available to execute the CFD engineering tasks for your project, and provide you with a detailed CFD analysis and simulation results. This page lists a few activities in which we provide specialized consulting services. Please contact us if you would like to use our services in another domain not listed here. Examples of various models in action are shown on the Palabos home page.
Our software is the right tool for simulating multiphase flow with high accuracy, high resolution, and complex physics. An interesting example is a two-phase fluid subjected to a stirring rotor, or fluid atomization in a swirling spray.
One of the major strengths of our software resides in its ability to solve a problem fast on a high resolution mesh. An example is the simulation of flows through porous media: we propose fully resolved, pore-scale simulations in large portions of the domain, where other CFD tools would fail to construct a pore-scale mesh and are restricted to the use of simplified continuum models.
Another of our key features is the efficient simulation of complex, coupled physical phenomena: from multi-phase and free-surface flow to thermal or particle-laden flows, all models can be combined to produce rich physics. Thermal convection in buildings is one of these topics with complex physics where our software delivers cutting-edge performance and accuracy.
Our software naturally combines classical mesh-based CFD with particle-based, meshless approaches to obtain the best from both worlds: accuracy and convergence guarantees from the mesh, and finer-than-the-grid surface tracking from the meshless ingredients. A beautiful application area is the simulation of fluid mixers: the exponential growth of the fluid interface during the resists all attempts from classical tools.
Palabos is ideal for the solution of complicated internal flow problems. Blood flow in arterial trees, study of the flow patterns inside aneurysms and detailed investigation of flows around stents are only just a few applications where Palabos can provide useful simulation results.
High performance computing is also a central keyword for the simulation of large-scale free surface flows. Our software easily handles long sections of rivers and canals, and provides a fully resolved 3D flow structure.