The Multi-Core CPU Parallel Computation for CFD Simulation of Flowmeter

CFD numerical simulation has often been performed to analyze the characteristics of the fluid field and design the measurement device like flowmeter. It needs parallel compute to improve the efficiency. The most important factor in distributed computing is cost and the small scale cluster with multi-core CPU is very feasible for parallel computation of CFD simulation. A small scale cluster with multi-core CPU is set up to discuss the performance of parallel computation in CFD simulation. It is verified by a CFD test which simulates a flowmeter in a pipe flow field, the results show that the mesh cell scale of actual computation is very important for ideal results. They also show that our small scale cluster with multi-core CPU is of good scalability and very high efficiency.