IDEMAS: Industrial demonstration of accurate and efficient multidimensional upwind and multigrid algorithms for aerodynamic simulation on unstructured grids

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 97.0427-1

Key words (English)

Parallel computing; computational fluid dynamics; domain decomposition methods;

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: BRPR-CT97-0591

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 4. Frame Research Programme - 2.1 Industrial and materials technologies

Short description (English)

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Partners and International Organizations (English)

Coordinator: Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (B)

Abstract (English)

In this project, we have developed, analyzed and implemented parallel methods for the solution of large-scale linear systems arising from computational fluid dynamics (cfd) problems. The techniques adopted are based on domain decomposition methods. In particular, we have developed and implemented a parallel matrix-free schur complement (sc) solver. The starting point was a code where parallelism was achieved by a block-jacobi procedure and anributing each jacobi block to a processor. We have enhanced the linear solver by implementing both parallel matrix-free sc based solvers and parallel preconditioners based either on multilelevel sc techniques or on schwarz iterations. These different techniques have been tested and compared on realistec aeronautical problems.
Moreover, since the performance of these preconditioners degradates as the number of processor grows, we have analyzed the effects of a coarse correction that is formed using algebraic procedures. Using this procedure we avoid to build a coarse grid, step that can be fairly expensive for unstructured 3d meshes.
Numerical experiments confirm the good properties of the proposed methods. All the tests have been run in a parallel environment using the mpi library.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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Swiss Project-Number: 97.0427-1