Author: Wei Qiu

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CFD2021 Conference Program

CFD2021 will be held online at 12:00pm-5:30pm NDT, July 27-29, 2021. All presentations will be live.

• CFD2021 conference program has been released. Slight changes were made to the schedules of sessions in the afternoon of July 29.

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• For presenters and session chairs, training sessions and instructions will be provided one week before the conference.

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CFD for Marine Applications – Challenges and Ways Ahead

Panelists

Kevin McTaggart completed his doctorate in Civil Engineering in 1989, specializing in offshore hydrodynamics at University of British Columbia.  He then commenced his career as a Defence Scientist with Defence Research and Development Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he leads the Performance Simulation Group.  His areas of research include ship motions in waves, ship maneuvering, and application of simulation to ship design and operation.  His current work and collaborations are examining application of CFD to prediction of ship maneuvering force coefficients.             

Barton Stockdill joined Robert Allan Ltd. full time in 2004 and is registered Professional Engineer in BC. He holds MASc and BEng degrees from the University of Victoria with a specialization in Computational Fluid Dynamics. As the Technical Manager Hydrodynamics, Bart leads the hydrodynamics group with a focus on CFD analysis of tugs and patrol vessels, particularly propulsion and manoeuvring. He initiated the CFD program at Robert Allan Ltd. in 2009 to support design work and reduce dependence on model testing. Today Robert Allan Ltd. has five dedicated CFD engineers and an in-house 1020 core high performance computing cluster.

Chad Oldfield is a senior naval architect at Vard Marine Inc., and leads their CFD group.  He received his B.Eng. from Memorial University and his M.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto.  His work spans a range of ship hydrodynamic performance analyses as applied in ship design, such as resistance and propulsion, manoeuvring, seakeeping, dynamic positioning, and developing new techniques to solve unique problems.  This includes application of CFD to both common and novel situations, and selecting methodologies suited to practical application at different stages of design.

Rajeev K. Jaiman is currently an Associate Professor and NSERC/Seaspan Industrial Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. Prior to his current appointment at UBC, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS, he was the Director of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Development at Altair Engineering, Inc., Mountain View, California.  The CFD technologies that Dr. Jaiman has developed are routinely used in marine/offshore, wind turbine, nuclear reactors, automotive and aerospace industries. Dr. Jaiman earned his first degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He received his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).  His research interests include fluid-structure interaction, computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis,  data-driven modeling and physics-based machine learning. He is currently an Associate Editor of ASME-JOMAE  and a senior member of AIAA and members of ASME, SNAME, USACM, APS and SIAM.

Numerical Simulations of Complex Multiphase Flows

Dr. Gretar Tryggvason is the Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his PhD from Brown University in 1985 and was on the faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor until 2000, when he moved to Worcester Polytechnic Institute as the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Between 2010 and 2017 he was the Viola D. Hank professor at the University of Notre Dame and the chair of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Professor Tryggvason is well known for his contributions to computational fluid dynamics; particularly the development of methods for computations of multiphase flows and for pioneering direct numerical simulations of such flows. He served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Physics 2002-2015, is a fellow of APS, ASME and AAAS, and the recipient of several awards, including the 2012 ASME Fluids Engineering Award and the 2019 ASTFE Award.

CFD Insights Ship Flows and Structural Interaction

Dr. Frederick Stern is a Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering and IIHR, University of Iowa. He is an expert in experimental/computational ship hydrodynamics following an integrated approach: experiments guided by simulations provide validation data and simulations fill in sparse data.  Iowa towing tank/wave basin data have been used for physics, CFD validation, and test cases for CFD workshops and NATO AVT working groups.  CFDShip-Iowa URANS/DES is one of the best codes at CFD workshops since 1994 with many functionalities. Next generation high-fidelity/resolution V6 enables two-phase sharp-interface DNS/LES utilizing billions of grid points.  Research includes development of V&V and UQ methods, fundamental physics, ship performance, deterministic/stochastic multi-disciplinary optimization, and fluid structure interaction, as described in many publications.

Multiscale Simulations of Liquid Crystalline Materials

Dr. Grecov received her Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics from Grenoble Institute of Technology. After a postdoctoral research fellow position at McGill University, Montreal, she joined the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in 2005, where she is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her expertise is in modeling and simulations, biofluid mechanics, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, rheology and tribology. She has more than 20 years of experience in complex fluids research, constitutive modeling development, and numerical simulations. She received the CFI (Canada Foundation for Innovation) Leaders Opportunity Award in 2007, a Peter Wall Early Career Scholar Award in 2007, the NSERC (Natural Sci. & Eng. Res. Council) Discovery Accelerator Award in 2016, the Wall Scholars Research Award in 2016 and she is a fellow of Engineers Canada from 2019. Dr. Grecov has published over 120 conference and journal papers, many of which are in prestigious journals. Her published papers are the outcome of the combination of analytical or/and experimental with numerical simulations. She has chaired many sessions at international conferences and advised more than 60 graduate and undergraduate students. 

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