Direct numerical simulation of turbulent reactive flows in a metacomputing environment

Direct numerical simulations (DNS) have become one of the most important tools to investigate turbulent combustion at a fundamental level. The enormous computational requirements of a DNS including detailed chemical reaction schemes cannot be met by even the world´s most powerful supercomputers. This paper therefore presents the results of an investigation of using a code for direct simulations of chemically reacting flows in heterogeneous, distributed computing environments