?> Agenda 2025 – CFD parschool
Sunday 6th July 2025: Afternoon (day 1)
Topic: Welcome and key-note presentation
15:00 15:30

Introduction to school

G. Amati
SuperComputing Applications and Innovation (SCAI) Department, CINECA
S. Pirozzoli
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome
I. Spisso
Leonardo Corporate CTIO
F. Viola
GSSI representative
INTRO1
15:30 17:15

Large Eddy Simulations of Wind Farm–Atmosphere Interactions

R. Stevens
University of Twente (Wind Energy)
Keynote 1
17:15 17:45 Coffee Break
17:45 19:15

Student Presentation

Splash talk by the students
INTRO2
20:00 22:00 Get-together drink / dinner
Monday 7th July 2025: Morning (day 2)
Topic: Introduction to HPC infrastructures
08:30 09:00

Introduction to the school on numerical methods for parallel CFD: aims and objectives

G. Amati
SuperComputing Applications and Innovation (SCAI) Department, CINECA
S. Pirozzoli
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome
I. Spisso
Leonardo Corporate CTIO
INTRO3
09:00 11:00

A long journey to exascale: State of the art, pre-exascale and towards the exascale

G. Amati
SuperComputing Applications and Innovation (SCAI) Department, CINECA
HPC 1
11:00 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 13:00

The devil is in the detail: How can we (really) exploit exascale platforms?

M. Bernaschi
Istituto Applicazioni del Calcolo, IAC-CNR, Rome, Italy
Keynote 2
13:00 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 16:00

(fast) re-cap of parallel computing paradigms on standard and heterogeneous architectures: MPI, OpenMP, GpGPU

G. Amati
SuperComputing Applications and Innovation (SCAI) Department, CINECA
A. Ceci
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome
HPC 2
16:00 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 18:30

Intro to HPC and programming: MPI, OpenMP, GPUs

G. Amati
SuperComputing Applications and Innovation (SCAI) Department, CINECA
A. Ceci
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome
HANDS-ON 1
Tuesday 8th July 2025: Morning (day 3)
CFD data driven (Taraneh Sayadi half-day)
08:50 09:00 Introduction INTRO4
09:00 11:00

Data-driven models for unsteady flows

T. Sayadi
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Paris (CNAM – Paris)
CFD1
11:00 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 13:00

Hands-on on CFD 

HANDS-ON 2
13:00 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 16:30

Sponsors Presentations (2 h)

E4
Wolf Dynamics
Prisma
SPONSORS
20:00 22:00 Social dinner
Wednesday 9th July 2025: Morning (day 4)
HPC for Fluid Mechanics, applications to combustion and bio-medicine with in-house Alya code
08:50 09:00 Introduction INTRO5
09:00 10:00

General engineering problems in fluid-mechanics

B. Eguzkitza, G. Indelicato, C. Guillamón
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
CFD2
10:00 11:00

HPC: need and implementation (architectures)

B. Eguzkitza, G. Indelicato, C. Guillamón
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
HPC3
11:00 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 12:15

Combustion applications

B. Eguzkitza, G. Indelicato, C. Guillamón
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
CFD3
12:15 13:00

Respiratory systems applications

B. Eguzkitza, G. Indelicato, C. Guillamón
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
CFD4
13:00 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 16:00

Hands-on session on combustion applications

G. Indelicato, C. Guillamón
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
HANDS-ON3
16:00 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 18:30

Hands-on session on respiratory applications

B. Eguzkitza
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
HANDS-ON 4
Thursday 10th July 2025: Morning (day 5)
Topic: Compressible flow
08:50 09:00 Introduction INTRO6
09:00 11:00

Numerical Methods for compressible/high-speed flow I

S. Pirozzoli
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome
CFD5
11:00 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 13:00

Numerical Methods for compressible/high-speed flow II

D. Modesti
Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
CFD6
13:00 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 16:00

Hands-on session on compressible/high-speed flows I

M. Bernardini
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome
F. Salvadore
HPC Department, CINECA, Rome
HANDS-ON 5
16:00 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 18:30

Hands-on session on performance portability of STREAM II

M. Bernardini
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
F. Salvadore
HPC Department, CINECA, Rome, Italy
HANDS-ON 6
Friday 11th July 2025: Morning (day 6)
Topic: Immersed boundary methods
08:50 09:00 Introduction INTRO7
09:00 11:00

Immersed boundary methods for complex flow simulations

R. Verzicco
Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata
CFD7
11:00 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 13:00

IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS FOR COMPLEX FLOW SIMULATIONS

F. Viola
GSSI representative
CFD8
13:00 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 16:00

Immersed boundary simulations hands-on

S. Leonardi
University of Texas at Dallas
HANDS-ON 7
16:00 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 18:00

Immersed boundary simulations hands-on

S. Leonardi
University of Texas at Dallas
HANDS-ON 8
18:00 18:30 Concluding Remarks
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