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Parallelisation of ESAUNA within EUROPORT-1: A structured/unstructured aeronautical CFD flow code

Parallelisation of ESAUNA within EUROPORT-1: A structured/unstructured aeronautical CFD flow code

Ierotheou, Cos, Forsey, C., Leatham, M. and Block, U. (1996) Parallelisation of ESAUNA within EUROPORT-1: A structured/unstructured aeronautical CFD flow code. In: Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Algorithms and Results Using Advanced Computers. Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 197-203. ISBN 9780080538464 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-044482327-4/50091-7)

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Abstract

General-purpose parallel processing for solving day-to-day industrial problems has been slow to develop, partly because of the lack of suitable hardware from well-established, mainstream computer manufacturers and suitably parallelized application software. The parallelization of a CFD-(computational fluid dynamics) flow solution code is known as ESAUNA. This code is part of SAUNA, a large CFD suite aimed at computing the flow around very complex aircraft configurations including complete aircraft. A novel feature of the SAUNA suite is that it is designed to use either block-structured hexahedral grids, unstructured tetrahedral grids, or a hybrid combination of both grid types. ESAUNA is designed to solve the Euler equations or the Navier-Stokes equations, the latter in conjunction with various turbulence models. Two fundamental parallelization concepts are used—namely, grid partitioning and encapsulation of communications. Grid partitioning is applied to both block-structured grid modules and unstructured grid modules. ESAUNA can also be coupled with other simulation codes for multidisciplinary computations such as flow simulations around an aircraft coupled with flutter prediction for transient flight simulations.

Item Type: Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings: Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Algorithms and Results Using Advanced Computers
Additional Information: Presented at Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Capri, Italy, 20-23 May 1996
Pre-2014 Departments: School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Last Modified: 14 Oct 2016 09:00
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/296

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