Title :
Communication Schemes of a Parallel Fluid Solver for Multi-scale Environmental Simulations
Author :
Frisch, Jérôme ; Mundani, Ralf-Peter ; Rank, Ernst
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. in Eng., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany
Abstract :
A lot of different environmental simulations use computational fluid dynamics for detailed airflow computation and pollution transportation. Unfortunately, a multi-scale computational fluid dynamics simulation is very time consuming and computational intensive, as a high geometric discretisation has to be chosen in order to capture all required physical phenomena, so that without any parallelisation strategies, these computations tend to be impossible to perform. In this paper, we will discuss communication schemes using the message passing paradigm implemented in a previously validated fluid simulation code. Advantages and disadvantages of the current implementation will be discussed and improvements will be proposed.
Keywords :
computational fluid dynamics; environmental science computing; flow simulation; message passing; parallel processing; airflow computation; communication schemes; computational intensive; fluid simulation code; geometric discretisation; message passing paradigm; multiscale computational fluid dynamics simulation; multiscale environmental simulations; parallel fluid solver; parallelisation strategy; physical phenomena; pollution transportation; Adaptation models; Atmospheric modeling; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational modeling; Data structures; Kernel; Synchronization; adaptive grid; environmental fluid dynamics simulation; message passing paradigm; non-overlapping block structured grid; parallel computation; synchronisation;
Conference_Titel :
Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), 2011 13th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Timisoara
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0207-4
DOI :
10.1109/SYNASC.2011.7