A method for data handling numerical results in parallel OpenFOAM simulations

Journal Article · Thu Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 2015 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4938800· OSTI ID:22499123

Anton, Alin ^[1]; Muntean, Sebastian ^[2]

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1. Faculty of Automatic Control and Computing, Politehnica University of Timişoara, 2"n"d Vasile Pârvan Ave., 300223, TM Timişoara, Romania, [e-mail] (Romania)
2. Center for Advanced Research in Engineering Science, Romanian Academy – Timişoara Branch, 24"t"h Mihai Viteazu Ave., 300221, TM Timişoara (Romania)

Parallel computational fluid dynamics simulations produce vast amount of numerical result data. This paper introduces a method for reducing the size of the data by replaying the interprocessor traffic. The results are recovered only in certain regions of interest configured by the user. A known test case is used for several mesh partitioning scenarios using the OpenFOAM toolkit{sup ®}[1]. The space savings obtained with classic algorithms remain constant for more than 60 Gb of floating point data. Our method is most efficient on large simulation meshes and is much better suited for compressing large scale simulation results than the regular algorithms.

• OSTI ID: 22499123
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1702, Issue 1; Conference: ICCMSE 2015: International conference of computational methods in sciences and engineering 2015, Athens (Greece), 20-23 Mar 2015; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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