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Title: Multi-rate time integration on overset meshes

Journal Article · · Journal of Computational Physics

Overset meshes are an effective tool for the computational fluid dynamic simulation of problems with complex geometries or multiscale spatio-temporal features. When the maximum allowable timestep on one or more meshes is significantly smaller than on the remaining meshes, standard explicit time integrators impose inefficiencies for time-accurate calculations by requiring that all meshes advance with the smallest timestep. With the targeted use of multi-rate time integrators, separate meshes can be time-marched at independent rates to avoid wasteful computation while maintaining accuracy and stability. This work applies time-explicit multi-rate integrators to the simulation of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations discretized on overset meshes using summation-by-parts (SBP) operators and simultaneous approximation term (SAT) boundary conditions. We introduce a class of multi-rate Adams-Bashforth (MRAB) schemes that offer significant stability improvements and computational efficiencies for SBP-SAT methods. We present numerical results that confirm the efficacy of MRAB integrators, outline a number of implementation challenges, and demonstrate a reduction in computational cost enabled by MRAB. We also look at the use of our method in the setting of a large-scale distributed-memory parallel implementation where we discuss concerns involving load balancing and communication efficiency.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Grant/Contract Number:
NA0002374
OSTI ID:
1801073
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1544595
Journal Information:
Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 396, Issue C; ISSN 0021-9991
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 4 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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