Shaheer Mohamed
Aerospace engineering
Hometown: San Jose, CA, United States
Graduation date: Fall 2026
FURI | Spring 2026
Computational Fluid Dynamics in Virtual Reality
This FURI project aims to create better, and more accessible methods for visualizing 3D CFD solutions that students would otherwise have none to very little experience with. CFD, or computational fluid dynamics, is a tool that acts as a virtual wind tunnel, allowing anyone to visualize flow around or through an object. However, CFD simulation typically use copiously large amounts of RAM, which many students simply can’t afford, or don’t want to invest in. On top of that, trying to visualize 3D flow in a 2D plane is difficult, even if its right in front of you. This project uses virtual reality to bring some of those 3D CFD visualizations to life, allowing students to interact with different types of complex flows, such as flow on a riverbed, or vortex structures created at the wingtips of aircraft. Creating these visualizations in a virtual setting should allow students to interact more carefully with a given flow, and compare theory, and what a formula tells them, to a real world case.
Mentor: Mohamed Kasbaoui
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