The Grainger College of Engineering
Parallel Programming Laboratory

Unsteady Fluid Flow Calculations Using a Machine Independent ParallelProgramming Environment

Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (ParCFD) 1992
Pulication Type: Paper
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Abstract

A portable parallel implementation of a fractional step method to solve 3D unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on MIMD machines is described. The context currently considered involves uniform grid spacing in one of the directions. A parallel decomposition strategy and its implementation on a portable parallel programming system (Charm) is described. Some optimizations including one that reduces the cost of parallel convergence tests are described. Performance results for calculation of flow in a driven cavity on different parallel computers are presented.

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Text Ref

A. Gursoy and L.V. Kale and S.P. Vanka, "Unsteady Fluid Flow Calculations using
a Machine Independent Parallel Programming Environment", Parallel Computational
Fluid Dynamics '92, ed. R. B. Pelz and A. Ecer and J. Hauser, Publ:North-Holland,
1993, pp. 175-185.

BibTex

@inproceedings{FluidFlowPCFD92,
        author = "A. Gursoy and L.V. Kale and S.P. Vanka",
        title = "Unsteady Fluid Flow Calculations using
            a Machine Independent Parallel Programming Environment",
        booktitle = "Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics '92",
        editor = {R. B. Pelz and A. Ecer and J. Hauser},
        publisher = "North-Holland",
        year = "1993",
        pages = "175--185",
        group = Y,
}