Wiki History

The QNET-CFD Network

The EU Network on Quality and Trust in the Industrial Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics was a four-year project which brought together the expertise of 43 participating organisations across Europe. The main objective of the Network was to improve the level of trust that can be placed in industrial CFD calculations by assembling, structuring and collating existing knowledge encapsulating the performance of models underlying the current generation of CFD codes.

The membership was principally built from industry, although there was a strong representation from universities and national research organisations and from the major European CFD code vendors. The network was co-ordinated by the University of Brussels (VUB), with WS Atkins plc acting as assistant co-ordinators. The Network was organised around six Application Areas; between 2000 and 2004 it created a Knowledge Base containing 43 Application Challenges and 43 Underlying Flow Regimes.

Following the end of the EU Network in July 2004, the Knowledge Base passed to the control of a committee of ERCOFTAC, the European Reserach Community of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, with the remit of enhancing and expanding the Knowledge Base and bringing it online for the benefit of applied Fluid Dynamicists and CFD users worldwide. The QNET Wiki has been developed to engage the engineering community in the development and enrichment of the prototype pioneered by the network.