ETP4HPC Webinar - Collaborative development of the Next-Generation Computation Fluid Dynamics Solver CODA by Onera, Airbus and DLR

Abstract

The collaboration between academia, research centers and industry has become a key element to maintain the competitiveness of the European aerospace industry. Industrial needs and use cases can highlight open research topics and industrial partners can turn R&D outcome into innovations and products for the market, while research centers help bridging the gap between academia and industry for improving the research-technology transfer. Such collaborations are however not always easy to set up and maintain over a long period. To address the need to fundamentally re-design CFD software and to make use of advanced HPC infrastructures, Airbus, ONERA and DLR decided in 2017 to jointly develop the new next generation CFD code CODA. This is the first joint CFD code development by the three partners with a focus on modern algorithms and on exploiting current and future HPC hardware architectures while making use of modern software engineering and code design in a collaborative way of working across organisations. The tools will enable the aerospace industry to solve problems currently out of reach within the constraints of balancing accuracy versus computational load. This will eventually result in improved CFD capabilities that can be employed when aiming to design aircraft that are lighter, quieter and more fuel-efficient which produce less greenhouse gas emissions. This Webinar will address the background of the collaboration and its implementation, the status of the code and the perspective for establishing CODA as a European Next-Generation CFD, Analysis and Design Platform. In this webinar, Airbus, ONERA and DLR will share some insight on their joint work, as well as on the content, but also on how they make it work - the difficulties they faced and the lessons they learned and are worth sharing.