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Title: Multigrid treatment of implicit continuum diffusion

Abstract

Implicit treatment of diffusive terms of various differential orders common in continuum mechanics modeling, such as computational fluid dynamics, is investigated with spectral and multigrid algorithms in non-periodic 2D domains. In doubly periodic time dependent problems these terms are handled efficiently by spectral methods, but in non-periodic systems solved with distributed memory parallel computing and 2D domain decomposition, this efficiency is lost for a large number of processors. Here, we built and present here a multigrid algorithm for these types of problems that outperforms a spectral solution employing the highly optimized FFTW library. This solver is suitable for high performance computing and may be able to efficiently treat implicit diffusion of arbitrary order by introducing auxiliary equations of lower order. We test these solvers for fourth and sixth order diffusion with harmonic test functions as well as turbulent 2D magnetohydrodynamic simulations. It is also shown that an anisotropic operator without mixed-derivative terms improves model accuracy and speed, and we examine the impact that the various diffusion operators have on the energy, the enstrophy, and the qualitative aspect of a simulation.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [1]
  1. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1497964
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1642269
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-756939
Journal ID: ISSN 0010-4655; 944576
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344; SC0010508; DOE-SC-0010508; AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Computer Physics Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 236; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0010-4655
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Hyperdiffusion; Hyperviscosity; Laplace–Beltrami; bi-Helmholtz; tri-Helmholtz; Multigrid

Citation Formats

Francisquez, M., Zhu, B., and Rogers, B. N. Multigrid treatment of implicit continuum diffusion. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2018.10.022.
Francisquez, M., Zhu, B., & Rogers, B. N. Multigrid treatment of implicit continuum diffusion. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2018.10.022
Francisquez, M., Zhu, B., and Rogers, B. N. Fri . "Multigrid treatment of implicit continuum diffusion". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2018.10.022. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1497964.
@article{osti_1497964,
title = {Multigrid treatment of implicit continuum diffusion},
author = {Francisquez, M. and Zhu, B. and Rogers, B. N.},
abstractNote = {Implicit treatment of diffusive terms of various differential orders common in continuum mechanics modeling, such as computational fluid dynamics, is investigated with spectral and multigrid algorithms in non-periodic 2D domains. In doubly periodic time dependent problems these terms are handled efficiently by spectral methods, but in non-periodic systems solved with distributed memory parallel computing and 2D domain decomposition, this efficiency is lost for a large number of processors. Here, we built and present here a multigrid algorithm for these types of problems that outperforms a spectral solution employing the highly optimized FFTW library. This solver is suitable for high performance computing and may be able to efficiently treat implicit diffusion of arbitrary order by introducing auxiliary equations of lower order. We test these solvers for fourth and sixth order diffusion with harmonic test functions as well as turbulent 2D magnetohydrodynamic simulations. It is also shown that an anisotropic operator without mixed-derivative terms improves model accuracy and speed, and we examine the impact that the various diffusion operators have on the energy, the enstrophy, and the qualitative aspect of a simulation.},
doi = {10.1016/j.cpc.2018.10.022},
journal = {Computer Physics Communications},
number = C,
volume = 236,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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