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High Performance Computing Research Center (HPCRC)

A server room for power computing.

The High Performance Computing Research Center (HPCRC) provides access to high performance computing resources (local and remote), high speed network access to those resources and the expertise to use them efficiently.

HPCRC staff helps push USAFA research beyond laptops to access vast computing systems for traditional computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language models, and more. These resources are available to all faculty, staff and cadets, regardless of academic department or discipline. As part of the Department of Aeronautics, HPCRC researchers assist aeronautical engineering majors to conduct research in computational modeling of aerodynamics and high-speed gas dynamics.

CORE COMPETENCIES
  • Access to DOD supercomputing resources
  • High-speed network access and local computer and storage systems
  • Defense Engineering and Research Network (DREN) access for all DF research centers
  • Expertise in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Complex unsteady flows
  • Full aircraft simulations: engines, spinning propellers, etc.
  • Fluid-structure interaction
  • Flexible structures
  • Multi-body aerodynamics
  • High-speed gas dynamics
  • Hypersonics
  • Reduced-order modeling (ROM) Aircraft stability and control
  • Mesh generation
  • Virtual reality for scientific data exploration
MAJOR PROJECTS
  • Physics-based computational modeling of full aircraft for USAF and DOD
  • High fidelity modeling of propeller and engine flow interactions with aircraft
  • CFD-based reduced-order modeling for aircraft stability and control characterization
  • Computational modeling of hypersonic flows
  • Fluid-Thermal-Structure-Interaction (FTSI) simulations for hypersonic vehicles
  • Multi-fidelity aircraft design and optimization tools
Working on a project at the High Performance Computing Research Center
CONTACT US

Dr. Jürgen Seidel
Director
jurgen.seidel@afacademy.af.edu
(719) 333-9526 or (719) 333-4010