Keynote Opening Opportunities for Thermal Design through Innovations in CFD

Summary form only given, as follows. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. Over the past decades, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has evolved from a purely research discipline to a reliable engineering practice. This evolution was driven by continued innovation in multiple domains, ranging from hardcore mathematics to HPC architecture development. Concurrently with this evolution, CFD has gradually taken on great importance in the thermal design process which has resulted in a countless number of products that could not have been realized otherwise. Yet, the potential for discovering new possibilities in thermal design through innovations in CFD remains enormous. This talk touches on a number of recent and upcoming innovations in CFD which have the potential to set this in motion.