Title :
Parallel implementation to chemically reactive Euler solver
Author :
Diao, Shijun ; Leblanc, J.E. ; Fujiwara, Toshi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microsyst. Eng., Nagoya Univ., Japan
fDate :
28 Apr-2 May 1997
Abstract :
The article concerns the parallelization methodology of a widely used semi implicit chemically reactive Euler equations solver. The reactive Euler equations are characterized by two tightly coupled physical phenomena: the convection and the chemical source term. To compute the convection term, upwind TVD (Total Variation Diminishing) scheme is chosen, and for calculation of chemical source term, a full complex chemical reaction mechanism is used. By considering the elapsed time for solving the problem by serial code, the numerical treatment of the convection and chemical source term takes about 90% of the total execution time. The main objective of the research is to reduce the relative cost of the the convection term calculation and chemical term computation and also to optimize the global cost of the numerical simulation by parallel implementation. The calculation speed of the parallel version of this code was more than 10 times faster by using 16 PEs for time accurate simulations of a RAM accelerator
Keywords :
chemical reactions; chemistry; chemistry computing; convection; parallel machines; parallel programming; RAM accelerator; Total Variation Diminishing; chemical source term; chemically reactive Euler solver; convection term; full complex chemical reaction mechanism; global cost; numerical simulation; numerical treatment; parallel implementation; parallelization methodology; reactive Euler equations; tightly coupled physical phenomena; upwind TVD; Chemical engineering; Chemical products; Combustion; Computational modeling; Cost function; Difference equations; Engines; Geometry; Numerical simulation; Projectiles;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Computing on the Information Superhighway, 1997. HPC Asia '97
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7901-8
DOI :
10.1109/HPC.1997.592214