Bernard PARENT • Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona

BERNARD PARENT

Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Toronto, 2002
B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, 1996

CFDWARP: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Waves, Reactions, Plasmas

CFDWARP is a in-house-developed 200K-line C code that simulates efficiently plasma and reactive flows occurring in aerodynamics, combustion, hypersonics, planetary entry, semiconductor manufacturing, and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). CFDWARP is a multi-block structured mesh compressible flow solver that uses high-order flux discretization schemes suitable for Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Implicit Large Eddy Simulation (ILES). CFDWARP is superior to other codes in being capable to integrate the electron and ion equations along with the bulk flow equations using aerodynamic-scale (i.e. microsecond and higher) integration steplengths, permitting the simulation of non-neutral plasmas in about the same amount of computing effort as non-ionized reactive flows (see https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J054624).... Read more.

Publications

FM Rodriguez Fuentes, B Parent. “Impact of Ion Mobility on Electron Density and Temperature in Hypersonic Flows”, Physics of Fluids, 37:013609, 2025.

B Parent, FM Rodriguez Fuentes. “Progress in Electron Energy Modeling for Plasma Flows and Discharges”, Physics of Fluids, 36:086113, 2024.

Awards

AIAA Associate Fellow, Class of 2024.

Physics of Fluids Editor’s Pick Award for the paper “Electron Losses in Hypersonic Flows” by B Parent, P Thoguluva Rajendran, A Omprakas, 2022.

AIAA Plasmadynamics & Lasers Best Paper of the Year Award 2020 for the paper “Fully Coupled Simulation of Plasma Discharges, Turbulence, and Combustion in a Scramjet Combustor” by B Parent, A Omprakas, K Hanquist, AIAA 2020-3230, 2020.

LaTeX Notes

I include some LaTeX HOWTOs in this section.... Read more.

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LATEX Mini HOWTO

09.04.2018

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CFDWARP Mini HOWTO

07.28.2018

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SOAP: Scientific Oriented Algorithmic Parser

07.28.2018

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GRIDG: Grid Generation Library

07.28.2018

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Download CFDWARP on GITHUB

07.28.2018

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Using GNUPLOT with CFDWARP

02.27.2018

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Bibliometrics — Ranking of the Scientific Journals

01.05.2014

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