Capabilities

FlowEDG currently supports the following capabilities. New capabilities are being actively developed. If you would like to see a capability added, please contact us at flowedgcfd@gmail.com and we will do our best to implement it if it aligns with our goals.

Current capabilities

• Solves the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations in 2D and 3D (no turbulence modeling, yet)
• Arbitrarily high-order accurate in space
• Unstructured with support for hybrid meshes composed of triangles, quadrangles, tetrahedron, prisms, and hexahedron.
• Option to use optimized nodal interpolation points for high order meshes
• Implicit time integration with up to third order accuracy
• MPI parallelization

Current limitations

• Memory requirement is quite high, particularly in 3D (60GB per 1 million p=2 tetrahedra)
• Only interfaces with GMSH mesh format (our mesh generator, MeshOpt, also interfaces with GMSH)
• While steady 3D solutions are supported, converging them in practical applications is difficult

Up next (in order of priority)

• RANS turbulence modeling
• Sub-grid scale and wall modeling for LES
• p-Multigrid
• GPU implementation (?)
• More robust mesh generation with MeshOpt.