services
Over its 40+ years of operation, the staff of Continuum Dynamics, Inc. have developed a broad base of experience that allows us to address a wide range of challenging problems for our customers. A selection of our recent and ongoing work includes:
- unique, high fidelity analysis, design support, and simulation tools for aircraft, rotorcraft, eVTOL vehicles, and wind turbines;
- novel hybrid CFD methods offering high modeling fidelity in realistic aerodynamic and hydrodynamic problems with greatly reduced setup and computational cost;
- state of the art acoustic and fluid/structural interaction modeling for power plant piping systems;
- advanced computational algorithms for molecular dynamics modeling as well as a wide range of High Performance Computing (HPC) problems;
- efficient, physics-based modeling of stores separation, countermeasures dispersal, and groundfall of aerially released materials;
- compact smart materials-based devices for multiple applications, ranging from rotorcraft vibration mitigation to intelligent flow control for wind turbines;
- scaling methodologies and deep test support experience enabling high payoff, fast-turnaround assembly of critical engineering data
The following summarizes a partial list of particular areas of past and ongoing work.
Aerospace Engineering
- Rotorcraft and eVTOL/eSTOL aircraft design
- Advanced analysis methods and CFD
- Flight simulation and training
- Flight control and full-vehicle aeromechanics
- Air vehicle external noise
- Modeling of tactical countermeasures
- Active control systems for rotorcraft and aircraft
- Turbomachinery aeromechanics
Environmental Engineering
- Agrichemical application modeling
- Analysis of fuel jettisoning groundfall
- Advanced CFD methods for turbine design support
- Modeling of wind turbine arrays and novel turbine designs
- Devices for wind turbine vibratory load mitigation
- Modeling of exhaust products for high altitude aircraft
Advanced Computational Methods
- Novel toolkit for minimizing communication in HPC processes
- Octree-based mesh generation for complex surfaces
- Gaussian Balance techniques for assessing fluid dynamics response
- Fast multipole methods in fluid mechanics, acoustics, and biomolecular electrostatics
Nuclear Engineering
- Modeling and analysis of valves and complex piping systems
- Flow induced vibration of jet pump components
- Debris strainers for emergency cooling water systems
- Steam line/steam dryer testing and analysis
- Test support
- Quality assurance
Biomolecular Electrostatics Modeling
- Adaptive Cartesian Grid-based solver and charge sensitivity analysis for nonlinear and size-modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation
- Modeling of solvents with non-uniform ion size
- Boundary element modeling (BEM) for linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation
- Fast multipole-accelerated solutions for BEM-based methods