The Center of Excellence in Combustion (CoEC) addresses the challenge to make low and zero-carbon solutions economically viable using advanced modelling and simulation technologies to study the combustion of sustainable fuels and new combustion technologies in order to transform Europe´s power and transportation sectors. This undertaking will support the European Union to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Central to CoEC's work is the use of Exascale computing, which entails the use of massively parallel algorithms on supercomputers reaching speeds in the Exaflop/s range, that will define High Performance Computing (HPC) in the coming decade. CoEC aims to be a central figure in Europe´s HPC combustion community to face the current and future challenges for cleaner and more efficient power and propulsion systems.

The project´s specific objectives are:

• To target scientific breakthroughs in combustion enabled by Exascale computing.
• To achieve significant advances in bringing combustion simulation technologies to market.
• To develop HPC software and algorithms for the efficient exploitation of Exascale systems.
• To promote and strengthen collaboration between the well-established European combustion and HPC communities, creating the European Exascale Combustion Community.
• To develop a services portfolio that includes standardized workflows and databases - targeting relevant stakeholders of the academic, industrial and public governance bodies.