Acceleration of high-order combined compact finite difference scheme for simulating three-dimensional flow and heat transfer problems in GPUs. (4th July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kao, Neo Shih-Chao; Liu, Rex Kuan-Shuo; Sheu, Tony Wen-Hann
• Is Part Of: Numerical heat transfer. Volume 78:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 265
• Page End: 287
• Publication Date: 2020-07-04
• Subjects: Heat -- Transmission -- Measurement -- Periodicals; Mass transfer -- Measurement -- Periodicals; Numerical analysis -- Periodicals; Heat -- Transmission -- Periodicals; Mass transfer -- Periodicals; 621.4022
• DOI: 10.1080/10407790.2020.1783127
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1040-7790

Abstract

Abstract: In this article, the high-order upwinding combined compact difference scheme developed in a three-point grid stencil is applied to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) and energy equations in three dimensions. The time integrator with symplectic property is employed to approximate the temporal derivative term in inviscid Euler equation so as to numerically retain the embedded Hamiltions and Casimir to get long-time accurate solutions. For the sake of computational efficiency in solving the three-dimensional NS equations, all the calculations will be accelerated using the hybrid CUDA and OpenAcc GPU programing models. The parallel speedup performance compared to the multicore of an Intel Xeon E5-2690V5 CPU is reported.