UTIAS CFD and Propulsion Group

Clinton P. T. Groth
Professor

Phone: (416) 667-7715
Fax: (416) 667-7799

Research Expertise & Interests

Prof. Groth heads the CFD and Propulsion group at UTIAS. He is a theoretical and computational fluid dynamicist with expertise in finite-volume schemes for compressible non-reacting and reacting flows and in the development of parallel adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) methods. He also has expertise in the computation of reactive, non-equilibrium, rarefied, and magnetized flows, and the development of generalized transport models and solution methods following from kinetic theory. His current reasearch focuses primarily on the development of parallel, high-order, AMR, finite-volume methods on body-fitted multi-block mesh for the solution of flows with disparate spatial and temporal scales and the application of these techniques to predicting turbulent, combusting, and multiphase flows encountered in aerospace propulsion systems. This includes research on large-eddy simulation (LES) techniques for compressible non-reacting and turbulent premixed, non-premixed, and partially premixed combusting flows, as well as fundamental studies of laminar flames for bio-based fuels (bio/syngas, ethanol, bio-diesel) and/or for high-pressure gas-turbine-like conditions.

Research Highlights

Prof. Groth is Co-Chair of this year's upcoming Combustion Institute/Canadian Section (CI/CS) Spring Technical Meeting to be held in Toronto, Ontario, from May 13-16, 2012. Please see the link found here for further information concerning the conference and abstract submission.

Prof. Groth is currently leading a Mprime National Centre of Excellence (NCE) funded research project on Multi-Scale Adaptive Modelling and Numerical Methods for Reactive Flows with Rolls-Royce Canada as an industrial partner. The industrial partnership is described in a recent issue of the University of Toronto Edge Magazine. Further information concerning this project can be found here.

Prof. Groth, along with other University of Toronto SciNet researchers, has partnered with NVIDIA through their academic partnership program to create the SciNet, University of Toronto CUDA Research Center.

Prof. Groth was involved in establishing the SciNet High Performance Computing Consortium which manages Canada's most powerful supercomputer (Reuters, CBC, Globe and Mail). More information concerning this facility can be found here.