Server Levent Yilmaz
Levent Yilmaz Research Assistant Professor, HPC Consultant
Center for Simulation and Modeling
University of Pittsburgh

Previously, Graduate Student Researcher
Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science
University of Pittsburgh

205 Bellefield Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412) 648-3094

Research Interests and Expertise
  • Thermal-Fluids Science, Combustion Modeling and Applications, Turbulence, CFD/CAE, Numerical Algorithms, Applied Mathematics, FDM/FVM/FEM, Stochastic Processes, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Large Scale Systems, Ocean and Environmental Modeling
  • High performance computing (HPC) in science and engineering, parallel programming for massive scalability, and adaptive load balancing for particle/mesh simulation codes
  • Mixed language (Fortran/C++) code development for next generation scientific codes, portability libraries and techniques
Selected Publications
Adaptive Domain Decomposition for Effective Load Balancing and Massive Parallelization in Turbulent Combustion Applications.
S. L. Yilmaz and P. Givi, to be submitted, 2008
PDF Modeling of Turbulent Lean Premixed Combustion
S. L. Yilmaz, P. Givi and P.A. Strakey, Proceedings of the 2007 Fall Technical Meeting of the Combustion Institute, Eastern States Section, 2007.
A Stochastic Approach to Modeling of Oil Pollution
H. Ors and S. L. Yilmaz, Energy Sources, 9(26), 879-884, 2004.

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Education
Projects
  • Scalable parallelization of particle/mesh turbulent combustion simulator, via adaptive-irregular decomposition (more...)
  • LES/FDF and PDF/RANS Modeling of Turbulent Combustion (more...)
  • Chemkin++: An easy-to-use C++ wrapper over the CHEMKIN user library of gas-phase kinetics.
  • Boost.Fortran A robust, lightweight library for portable mixed language programming with C++/Fortran
  • Overture for Cygwin: Step-by-step guide to build Overture on Cygwin
  • iMDSim: Improved Molecular Dynamics. A simple, but blazingly fast and extremely scalable implementation for basic molecular dynamics simulation.
  • GIfT: A Graphical Interface for Triangle, the famous 2D mesh generator.
  • FEM Modeling of ocean dynamics in the Turkish Straits System.