Scalability studies and large grid computations for surface combatant using CFDShip-Iowa

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 466-487

  Bhushan, Shanti ^a   Carrica, Pablo ^a   Yang, Jianming ^a   Stern, Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

large grid computation; scalability study; ship hydrodynamics; surface combatant; turbulent flows

Indexed keywords

CARTESIANS; COARSE GRID; DETACHED EDDY SIMULATIONS; DRIFT ANGLE; FREE SURFACES; FREE-SURFACE FLOW; GRID COMPUTATION; GRID POINTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; IMPLICIT SOLVERS; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MULTI-GRID; PARALLELIZATIONS; POISSON SOLVERS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION; SHIP HYDRODYNAMICS; SURFACE COMBATANT; TIME STEP; TIME STEP SIZE; TOTAL CPU TIME; TURBULENCE PREDICTION; TURBULENT STRUCTURES; VORTEX STRENGTH; VORTICAL STRUCTURES; WALL FUNCTION;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; MESSAGE PASSING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

SCALABILITY;

EID: 82955223402     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342010394887     Document Type: Article

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