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Solution of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations on MIMD distributed memory multiprocessors using cyclic reduction

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OSTI ID:5504875
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  1. Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ (United States) Grumman Aerospace Corp., Bethpage, NY (United States)

The Euler and Navier-Stokes equations are solved for the steady, two-dimensional flow over a NACA 0012 airfoil using a 1024 node nCUBE/2 multiprocessor. Second-order, upwind-discretized difference equations are solved implicitly using ADI factorization. Parallel cyclic reduction is employed to solve the block tridiagonal systems. For realistic problems, communication times are negligible compared to calculation times. The processors are tightly synchronized, and their loads are well balanced. When the flux Jacobians flux are frozen, the wall-clock time for one implicit timestep is about equal to that of a multistage explicit scheme. 10 refs.

OSTI ID:
5504875
Report Number(s):
AIAA-Paper--92-0561; CONF-920157--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English