Interfacing MFIX with PETSC and HYPRE Linear Solver Libraries (Final Report)
- Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (United States); University of North Dakota
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
A computational bottleneck during the solution to multiphase formulations of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is often during the implicit solution of the pressure correction equation that results from operator-splitting methods. Since density is a coefficient in the pressure-correction equation, large variations or discontinuities among the phase densities greatly increase the condition number of the pressure-correction matrix and retard the convergence of iterative methods employed in its solution. To alleviate this shortcoming, the open-source multiphase code MFiX is interfaced with the linear solver libraries PETSc and HYPRE. Through an appropriate mapping of matrix and vector data structures between the two software packages, an access to a suite of robust, scalable, solver options in PETSc and HYPRE is obtained. Verification of the implementation is demonstrated through predictions that are identical to those obtained from MFiX’s native solvers for a class of single-phase and multiphase flow problems.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FE0026191
- OSTI ID:
- 1592576
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-UND--0026191
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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