Overnight industrial LES for external aerodynamics

Abstract This paper summarizes the efforts carried out over the last year to achieve overnight industrial Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) runs for external car aerodynamics. The solver employed is based on adaptive cartesian blocks, uses explicit timestepping to advance the Navier-Stokes equations describing mildly compressible flows, and scales well to tens of thousands of cores. The capabilities developed to date are tested on a Volkswagen Golf.

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