Thursday, February 13, 2014

CAE, FEA, CFD: Nomenclature, Abbreviation

What is it stand for

ALE            Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian
AMR           Adaptive Mesh Refinement
BEM           Boundary element method
CAD           Computer-aided design
CAE           Computer-aided  Engineering
CFD           Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFM          Computational Fluid Mechanics
CMC          Conditional Moment Closure
CSM          Computational Structure Mechanics
CMHD        Computational magnetohydrodynamics
DES            Detached eddy simulations
DEM           Discrete Element Method
DNS           Direct numerical simulation
DSMC        Direct Simulation Monte Carlo
DWR          Dual Weighted Residual
ELSA          Eulerian-Lagrangian Spray Atomization
FDM           Finite difference method
FEA            Finite Element Analysis
FEM           Finite Element Method
FFT            Fast Fourier Transformation
FLIP           Fluid-Implicit-Particle
FMM          Fast Multipole Method
FVM          Finite Volume Method
FVPM        Finite Volume Particle Method
FSI             Fluid Structure Interaction
GMRES      Generalized Minimal Residual (GMRES) method
IGA            Isogeometric Analysis
GFM           Ghost Fluid Method
HPC            High-performance Computing
LBM           Lattice Boltzmann methods
LES             Large eddy simulation
LPS             Local Projection Stabilization
MAC          Marker-and-cell method
MC             Monte Carlo
MD             Molecular Dynamics
MM            Molecular Mechanics
MMC         Metropolis Monte Carlo
MPM          Material Point Method
N-S            Navier-Stokes
NURBS      Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines
ODE           Ordinary Differential Equation
PDF            Probability density function
PDF            Pressure driven flow
PIC             Particle-in-cell
PISO           Pressure Implicit with Splitting of Operator

PRESTO     Pressure Staggering Option
PTC            Passive Turbulence Control 
RANS         Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations
REV            Reference Element of Volume
RMS           Root Mean Square
RSM           Reynolds stress model
RT              Rayleigh–Taylor (instability)
SAS            Scale-Adaptive Simulation
SDS            Stochastic Differential Systems
SEM           Spectral element method
SIMPLE     Semi-Implicit Method for Pressure Linked Equations
SGS            Sub-Grid Scales
SPH            Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics
TKE            Turbulence kinetic energy
TLBM         Thermal Lattice Boltzmann methods
TBL            Turbulent Boundary Layer
URANS      Unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations
VC              Vorticity Confinement
VIV             Vortex-induced vibration
VMS           Variational Multiscale Method
VOF            Volume of Fluid

EXPERIMENT
LIF               Laser-Induced Fluoresence
PIV              Particle Imaging Velocimetry
SMD            Sauter-mean Diameter (of product droplet)
LEDs            Light-emitting diodes

DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER
CFL             Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy
Fr                 Froude number
Re                Reynolds number
M                 Mach number
Nu                Nusselt number
Pe                Peclet number
Pr                 Prandtl number
St                 Strouhal number

MATH
ROSM         Reduced-Order Surrogate Model
FDKL          Frequency-Domain Karhunen-Loeve
POD            Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
SCI              Single-Composite Input



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