State-of-the-Art Computational Fluid Dynamics and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a cornerstone technology for modeling, designing, and optimizing fluid systems across a wide range of industries. From aerospace and automotive engineering to energy systems, biomedical devices, and environmental processes, CFD provides a critical virtual laboratory for understanding complex flow physics and testing solutions prior to physical prototyping.

This Special Issue aims to highlight state-of-the-art CFD techniques in the context of practical and high-impact applications. While numerical innovation remains essential, the primary focus of this Special Issue is on how modern CFD tools and strategies are enabling real-world advances. We welcome both methodological developments and their deployment in solving challenging engineering or scientific problems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Aerospace and automotive aerodynamics, drag reduction, and propulsion design.
• Biomedical flows: cardiovascular simulations, drug delivery, and respiratory modeling.
• Energy systems: wind turbines, gas turbines, combustion, and thermal management.
• Marine and offshore engineering: hull hydrodynamics, cavitation, and wave–structure interaction.
• Environmental flows: urban air quality, pollutant dispersion, and hydrological modeling.
• Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip applications.
• Industrial process optimization: chemical reactors, mixing, and heat exchangers.
• Integration of CFD with AI/ML for design optimization and real-time prediction.
• Accelerated CFD using GPUs, reduced-order models, and digital twin frameworks.
• Validation and verification of simulations using experimental or field data.

With growing demand for cleaner technologies, faster design cycles, and performance optimization, CFD is evolving into a vital decision-making tool in industrial and societal challenges. Coupled with advances in hardware (e.g., GPU computing), data-driven modeling, and simulation-based control, CFD is now playing a leading role in engineering innovation. This Special Issue provides a platform to disseminate impactful research where CFD directly contributes to solving real-world problems.

We look forward to your contributions.

Dr. Mostafa Safdari Shadloo
Guest Editor

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• computational fluid dynamics
• fluid engineering applications
• multiphysics simulation
• high-fidelity modeling
• digital twin
• GPU acceleration
• machine learning
• aerodynamics
• biomedical flows
• energy systems