High performance computing in coastal and hydraulic applications

Author

Aliabadi, S. ; Johnson, A. ; Berger, C. ; Smith, J. ; Abedi, J. ; Zellars, B. ; Abatan, A.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Clark Atlanta Univ., GA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

36982

Abstract

Parallel computation of unsteady, free-surface flow applications are performed using stabilized finite element method. The finite element formulations are written for fix meshes and are based on the Navier-Stokes equations and an advection equation governing the motion of the interface function. To increase the accuracy of the method, an interface-sharpening/mass conservation algorithm is designed. The method has been implemented on the CRAY T3E and also IBM SP/6000 using the MPI libraries. We show the effectiveness of the method in simulating complex 3D costal and hydraulic applications such as flow in open channels, wave formation and wave interaction with ships in motion. Some simulations are performed on unstructured meshes with 200 million tetrahedral elements

Keywords

Navier-Stokes equations; finite element analysis; geophysics computing; parallel processing; performance evaluation; physics computing; CRAY T3E; IBM SP/6000; MPI libraries; Navier-Stokes equations; coastal applications; free-surface flow; high performance computing; hydraulic applications; meshes; parallel computation; simulations; stabilized finite element method; wave formation; wave interaction; Computational modeling; Finite element methods; High performance computing; Marine vehicles; Military computing; Navier-Stokes equations; Newton method; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear systems; Sea measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium., Proceedings 15th International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1530-2075

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0990-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2001.924933

Filename

924933