Engineering

Engineering research at NCI is focused in the areas of aerodynamics and fluid flow. Based largely on numerical simulations running at large scales on NCI’s supercomputer, researchers are investigating both fundamental and applied aspects of fluid flow and how they relate to vehicles, engines, energy production and more.

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Research Highlights

20 Feb 2023

Insights to improve the manufacture of new materials

This research highlight was originally published in NCI's 2021-2022 Annual Report. Organic semiconductors are new materials generating significant excitement among researchers and industry. They are

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Research Highlights

24 May 2021

Creating a super-efficient mesh solver for high-performance computing

Engineering

There’s no easy way to test the effect of an earthquake on a building or landscape. The amount of energy is so large and the structures are so complex that computational simulations are the only way

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Research Highlights

23 Apr 2020

Enabling groundbreaking science with the largest compute grants in Australian history

Astronomy

Earth and Environmental Science

Engineering

NCI Australia is proud to support incredible Australian research through the inaugural Australasian Leadership Computing Grants (ALCG).The highly competitive Grant will allow researchers to tackle the

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Case Studies

24 Jul 2019

Engineering

Engineering research at NCI is focused in the areas of aerodynamics and fluid flow. Based largely on numerical simulations running at large scales on NCI’s supercomputer, researchers are investigating

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Research Highlights

21 Dec 2017

Designing better planes with supercomputing

Engineering

Physics

Fluid vortices rolling off a spinning sphere, from Dr Calabretto's research. Understanding the way fluid moves over a rotating sphere has implications for the behaviour of air flowing over an aircraft

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Research Highlights

20 Sep 2017

Reducing ship grounding risk

Engineering

Global not-for-profit water and maritime engineering organisation DHI is using NCI to model currents and waves to understand the risks of ships coming aground on the Australian coast. Working with the

Two interacting turbulent fluids showing green and red masses of twisted vortices.

Research Highlights

14 Sep 2017

Simulations of fluid flow turbulence

Engineering

Physics

Researchers from Monash University are simulating turbulent fluid flows, which affect airplane aerodynamics and design. The research uses direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flows to

A grid of Aluminium atoms in pink surrounding a boron nitride nanotube viewed from its end.

Research Highlights

14 Feb 2017

Nanomaterials designed for space travel

Engineering

Materials

Researchers are using NCI's supercomputing facility to investigate the interaction of nanomaterials with metals that could be used in future space travel. Dr Christoph Rohmann from the University of

Research Highlights

31 Aug 2016

Space junk tracking backed by supercomputer power

Engineering

Technology

RMIT researchers are using the NCI supercomputer in a major space, atmosphere and satellite navigation research centre. The Satellite Positioning for Atmosphere, Climate and Environment (SPACE)

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Research Highlights

09 Jun 2016

New classes of optical devices being developed

Engineering

Materials

Physics

Nanopillars such as these can produce light using electrons bouncing around inside them. See this paper for more information. Discoveries in nanotechnology are leading to new classes of optical

Engineering

Insights to improve the manufacture of new materials

Creating a super-efficient mesh solver for high-performance computing

Enabling groundbreaking science with the largest compute grants in Australian history

Engineering

Designing better planes with supercomputing

Reducing ship grounding risk

Simulations of fluid flow turbulence

Nanomaterials designed for space travel

Space junk tracking backed by supercomputer power

New classes of optical devices being developed

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