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Aircraft engines must meet the emission standards for nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO) set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. These standards are becoming more and more stringent, and engine companies are facing increasing challenges in designing and optimizing engines to comply. The combination of computational science and high-performance computing can provide a virtual tool to help meet these requirements.
Purdue’s Computational Energy & Propulsion Lab (CEPL) is working on developing accurate and efficient computational models for combustion processes. Ultimately, the aim is to deliver important computational-modeling building blocks to the engine industry for the virtual tools it uses in design and optimization.
Source: Virtualizing combustion to cut aircraft engine emissions
