Demonstrations

Scientists, engineers, and technologists from six NASA centers and several universities will be on hand at SC11 to present the results of their agency-related work over the last year. Below are details for these 40 projects, accompanied by beautiful and informative images and videos.

Aeronautics

Design of Ultra-Durable Materials for Future Aerospace Vehicles
High Fidelity Navier-Stokes Simulation of Rotor Wakes
High-Performance Computing for Extended Formation Flight
Large-Eddy Simulation of an Oblique Shock/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interaction
Modeling Self-Excited Combustion Instabilities
Supersonic Nozzle Design for Low-Noise/High-Thrust at Takeoff
UH-60A Blackhawk Helicopter Aerodynamics
Ultraviolet Spectra of Air Molecules

Our Planet

Biomass Burning Aerosol Effects on Clouds and Precipitation
Earth System Grid for IPCC AR5 Data Distribution
Earth System Science Applications of Ocean State Estimation
GPU Acceleration of the Goddard Earth Observing System Atmospheric Model
iRODS-Based Climate Data Services and Virtualization-as-a-Service at NCCS
NASA Center for Climate Simulation: Data-Centric Climate Computing
NASA Climate Simulations Inform the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
NASA Earth Exchange: A Collaborative Supercomputing Platform
Ultrascale Climate Data Visualization and Analysis
Understanding the "Crack" in Earth's Magnetosphere

Space Exploration

Aerodynamic Simulations of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Aerothermal Entry Environments for the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Modeling and Simulation Support for NASA's Space Launch System
Powered Stage Separation Aerodynamics of the Ares I Launch Vehicle
Simulating the Ares I Scale Model Acoustic Test Using CFD
Simulation of Jet Plumes for Orion Launch Abort
Simulations to Support Next-Generation Launch Pads
Space Shuttle Aerodynamics and Debris Simulations
Supersonic Retropropulsion for Mars Entry
Time-Accurate CFD Simulations of the Orion Launch Abort Vehicle in the Transonic Regime
Transition to Turbulence During Mars Entry

Supercomputing

Heterogeneous Architectures for Earth Science Computing
High-End Computing Capability Project: Passing the Petaflop Barrier
Live, Real-Time Demonstrations of 40-to-100-Gbps File Transfers Across WANs

The Universe

Hypersonic Turbulence and the Birth of Stars
"Inverted Tornado" in the Solar Turbulent Convection
Kepler: NASA's Search for Habitable Earth-Size Planets
Modeling the Sun's Emerging Magnetic Field
Simulating the Formation of Dwarf Galaxies
Simulations of the Solar Interior
The Sun in a Box
Visualizing Simulations of Cosmology and Galaxy Formation

Featured Demos

Among the many exciting NASA projects being showcased at SC11, these featured demos represent the wide breadth of NASA science and engineering missions made possible by agency supercomputing resources.

Kepler: NASA's Search for Habitable Earth-Size Planets
Todd Klaus, Joseph Twicken
Understanding the "Crack" in Earth's Magnetosphere
Homa Karimabadi, Tamara Sipes
High Fidelity Navier-Stokes Simulation of Rotor Wakes
Neal Chaderjian
Modeling & Simulation Support for NASA's Space Launch System
Cetin Kiris, Jeffrey Housman

http://nas.nasa.gov/SC11/demonstrations.html