{"id":230993,"date":"2026-02-10T02:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/supercomputer-simulations-test-turbulence-theories-at-record-35-trillion-grid-points"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:43:27","slug":"supercomputer-simulations-test-turbulence-theories-at-record-35-trillion-grid-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/supercomputer-simulations-test-turbulence-theories-at-record-35-trillion-grid-points","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputer simulations test turbulence theories at record 35 trillion grid points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supercomputer-simulations-test-turbulence-theories-at-record-35-trillion-grid-points.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have performed the largest direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulence in three dimensions, attaining a record resolution of 35 trillion grid points. Tackling such a complex problem required the exascale (1 billion billion or more calculations per second) capabilities of Frontier, the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputer for open science.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s results offer new insights into the underlying properties of the turbulent fluid flows that govern the behaviors of a variety of natural and engineered phenomena\u2014from ocean and air currents to combustion chambers and airfoils. Improving our understanding of turbulent fluctuations can lead to practical advancements in many areas, including more accurately predicting the weather and designing more efficient vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-fluid-mechanics\/article\/smallscale-properties-from-exascale-computations-of-turbulence-on-a-mathbf327683-periodic-cube\/ACBB7FFE296106B0F2E9CA1B50A1A456\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have performed the largest direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulence in three dimensions, attaining a record resolution of 35 trillion grid points. Tackling such a complex problem required the exascale (1 billion billion or more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supercomputing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}