Construction of numerical wind tunnel on the e-science infrastructure

Abstract

The e-AIRS that is still under development is suggested to be an easy-to-use research environment. Through the portal services, the nonexperts can produce their own research outputs without the knowledge of grid system architecture. The grid portal with many service modules and user-friendly UI makes the research environment more convenient. In the e-AIRS project, main modules of service framework for sequential CFD calculation, job steering, and job and resource monitoring and visualization were presented. Job steering submits an application to resource for its execution-that is, dispatches the jobs to suitable resources and aggregates the outputs. Monitoring handles access control to grid resources and monitors the jobs over allocated resource. The remote experiment service was prepared for client researchers who don't possess their wind tunnel. With the access grid system and collaborative activities, the aerospace engineers can share and compare their research data. The collaborative research teams require collaborative communication system. The experiment operator, client users can discuss their computational and experimental data through shared applications such as shared PPT, shared browser, shared PDF, and shared desktop. © 2007 Copyright © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved..