Parallelization of a computational fluid dynamics solver

Abstract

This thesis is an effort of accelerating an in-house CFD code, using HPC (High Performance Computing) systems. The profit that is expected is the reduction of solution time and the ability to solve larger problems. In the introduction, previous work is reported and the most important technologies and programming techniques are analyzed. Understanding these technologies lead to the optimal exploitation of the available tools. Next the serial code is described and analyzed before the analysis of the parallelization steps, the memory management and the communication involved that are described in deep afterwards. The parallel code uses the domain decomposition method and the workload is balanced over the processors depending on their computational power. The domain decomposition is applied on simple and complex geometries using one- and multi-block topologies. Investigation of the Altivec vector unit also takes place to achieve extra acceleration. Finally, the results of the parallel code ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/20139
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/20139
ND
20139
Alternative title
Παραλληλοποίηση αλγορίθμων επίλυσης γενικευμένων πεδίων ροής
Author
Σωτηρόπουλος, Αναστάσιος (Πατρώνυμο: Δημήτριος)
Date
2009
Degree Grantor
Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Committee members
Γούλας Απόστολος
Σαμαράς Ζήσης
Μουσιόπουλος Νικόλαος
Νατσιάβας Σωτήριος
Καρατζάς Κωνσταντίνος
Κάλφας Ανέστης
Υάκινθος Κυριάκος
Discipline
Engineering and Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Keywords
CFD; MPI; Domain decomposition; Parallel processing; Altivec
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
166 σ., im.
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