The research has been made possible by the ACI-GRID 2002 Project of the French Ministry of Researchhttp://www.recherche.gouv.fr/recherche/aci/grid.htm.
The author would like to thank Herve Guillard for the opportunity to work on the MecaGRID project. Thanks to Herve Guillard and Angelo Murrone for their important contributions to two-phase flow advancement that are the basis for the AEDIF code. The collaboration with Patrick Nivet has greatly added to the advancement of the project. A special thanks to the MecaGRID local system managers David Geldreich (INRIA), Carole Torrin (CEMEF), and Jacques Massoni (IUSTI) for their support and patience. A special thanks you to Alain Dervieux for his collaboration and insight in the development of the AEDIF code developed specifically for MecaGRID two-phase flow applications and Bruno Koobus a valuable member of the AEDIF development team and one of the major contributors to the AERO-F development. Lastly, the contributions of Hugues Digonnet and Rodolphe Lanrivain to the mesh partitioner adapted to the AERO-F and AEDIF code are gratefully acknowledged.