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Research Article
A parallel Navier–Stokes solver for the rotating flow problem
Article first published online: 21 MAR 2001
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.554
Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Volume 13, Issue 3, pages 163–180, March 2001
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How to Cite
da Cunha, R. D. and de Bortoli, Á. L. (2001), A parallel Navier–Stokes solver for the rotating flow problem. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 13: 163–180. doi: 10.1002/cpe.554
Publication History
- Issue published online: 21 MAR 2001
- Article first published online: 21 MAR 2001
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- Research Support Agency of the State of Rio Grande do Sul
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Keywords:
- parallel computing;
- message-passing;
- computational fluid dynamics
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the parallel solution of rotating internal flow problems, using the Navier–Stokes equations as proposed by Speziale and Thangam (in 1983) and Speziale (in 1985). A Runge–Kutta time-stepping scheme was applied to the equations and both sequential and message-passing implementations were developed, the latter using MPI, and were tested on a four-processor SGI Origin200 distributed, global shared memory parallel computer and on a 32-processor IBM 9076 SP/2 distributed memory parallel computer. The results show that our approach to parallelize the sequential implementation requires little effort whilst providing good results even for medium-sized problems. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.