Facilities

Focous on Fluid Dynamics including (in)-compressible single and multiphase flows, as well as aerodynamics. The Finite Element Method is used as mathematical modeling to tackle serveral different physical problems in the industry and in fundamental research.

A SGI - Sylicon Graphics International - cluster used to perform multiprocessor/multicore parallel simulations is shown in the figure above. This cluster has been bought for a P&D project of the oil&gas industry in Brazil

The new powerful Dell cluster with 3 Xeon nodes is shown in figure above and installed in a full capacity APS Rack along with a NAS - Network Attached System - and a 48-port switch with fast connection.

This figure was taken at the back of the Dell cluster.