Parallel and vector computation in heat transfer

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:5545253

Georgiadis, J G ^[1]; Murthy, J Y ^[2]

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1. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
2. Creare, Inc., Hanover, NH (United States)

This collection of manuscripts complements a number of other volumes related to engineering numerical analysis in general; it also gives a preview of the potential contribution of vector and parallel computing to heat transfer. Contributions have been made from the fields of heat transfer, computational fluid mechanics or physics, and from researchers in industry or in academia. This work serves to indicate that new or modified numerical algorithms have to be developed depending on the hardware used (as the long titles of most of the papers in this volume imply). This volume contains six examples of numerical simulation on parallel and vector computers that demonstrate the competitiveness of the novel methodologies. A common thread through all the manuscripts is that they address problems involving irregular geometries or complex physics, or both. Comparative studies of the performance of certain algorithms on various computers are also presented. Most machines used in this work belong to the coarse- to medium-grain group (consisting of a few to a hundred processors) with architectures of the multiple-instruction-stream-multiple- data-stream (MIMD) type. Some of the machines used have both parallel and vector processors, while parallel computations are certainly emphasized. We hope that this work will contribute to the increasing involvement of heat transfer specialists with parallel computation.

• OSTI ID: 5545253
• Report Number(s): CONF-900619-; ISBN: 0-7918-0478-X
• Resource Relation: Conference: 5. AIAA/ASME thermophysics and heat transfer conference, Seattle, WA (United States), 18-20 Jun 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
FLUID MECHANICS
ALGORITHMS
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
MEETINGS
HEAT TRANSFER
SUPERCOMPUTERS
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
PARALLEL PROCESSING
VECTOR PROCESSING
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
LEADING ABSTRACT
PERFORMANCE
ABSTRACTS
COMPUTERS
DIGITAL COMPUTERS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY TRANSFER
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
MECHANICS
PROGRAMMING
SIMULATION
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