High-Order CFD Solver Developed at LIFSE 

The LIFSE laboratory develops a high-order finite volume CFD solver for unstructured meshes based on a Moving Least Squares reconstruction. This compressible flow solver, extensively validated through numerous international publications, is designed for the accurate simulation of complex steady and unsteady flows over a wide range of Mach numbers.

The code features very high-order spatial discretizations, a posteriori adaptive strategies for automatic numerical dissipation control, and advanced models for turbulence (implicit LES), aeroacoustics, compressible multiphase flows, phase change, and Navier–Stokes–Korteweg formulations. It supports fixed, moving, and overset (chimera) meshes.

Successfully applied to problems in aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, turbomachinery, and multiphase flows, this solver currently serves as a reference research platform at LIFSE. Although presently an in-house code, it is intended for future open-source release in order to foster academic and industrial collaborations.

 

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