Current trends on CFD （Computational Fluid Dynamics） along with high performance computing are moving towards using modem GPUs （Graphics Processing Units） in order to achieve substantial execution speedup. Consequ...Current trends on CFD （Computational Fluid Dynamics） along with high performance computing are moving towards using modem GPUs （Graphics Processing Units） in order to achieve substantial execution speedup. Consequently, it is definitely crucial to have some understanding about execution time of different computational methods and parallelization procedures. In this study, two GPU accelerated schemes namely LBM （Lattice Boltzmann Method） and SFV （Stream Function-Vorticity） formulation are investigated and compared for simulation of flow over a fiat plate. The comparisons are based on solvers runtime and speedup and GPU type of structuring. On study the authors found that although the runtime for SFV formulation is less than LBM, LBM has greater potential to obtain higher speedup by using modern GPUs like NVIDIA GTX 480. In addition, a performance sensitivity is done to investigate for different GPU type of structures as a considerable parameter. The difference between GPU runtime in optimum and regular conditions indicates that using one-dimensional structuring can improve the GPU performance about 50 percent.展开更多
Pulsatile flow of blood in a blood vessel having time-dependent shape （diameter） is inves-tigated numerically in order to understand some important physiological phenomena in arteries. A smooth axi-symmetric cosine ...Pulsatile flow of blood in a blood vessel having time-dependent shape （diameter） is inves-tigated numerically in order to understand some important physiological phenomena in arteries. A smooth axi-symmetric cosine shaped constriction is considered. To mimic the realistic situation as far as possible, viscosity of blood is taken to be non-uniform, a shear-thinning viscosity model is considered and a physiologically relevant pulsatile flow is introduced. Taking advantage of axi-symmetry in the proposed problem, the stream function-vorticity formulation is used to solve the governing equations for blood flow. Effect of different parameters associated with the problem on the flow pattern has been investigated and disparities from the Newtonian case are discussed in detail.展开更多
文摘Current trends on CFD （Computational Fluid Dynamics） along with high performance computing are moving towards using modem GPUs （Graphics Processing Units） in order to achieve substantial execution speedup. Consequently, it is definitely crucial to have some understanding about execution time of different computational methods and parallelization procedures. In this study, two GPU accelerated schemes namely LBM （Lattice Boltzmann Method） and SFV （Stream Function-Vorticity） formulation are investigated and compared for simulation of flow over a fiat plate. The comparisons are based on solvers runtime and speedup and GPU type of structuring. On study the authors found that although the runtime for SFV formulation is less than LBM, LBM has greater potential to obtain higher speedup by using modern GPUs like NVIDIA GTX 480. In addition, a performance sensitivity is done to investigate for different GPU type of structures as a considerable parameter. The difference between GPU runtime in optimum and regular conditions indicates that using one-dimensional structuring can improve the GPU performance about 50 percent.
文摘Pulsatile flow of blood in a blood vessel having time-dependent shape （diameter） is inves-tigated numerically in order to understand some important physiological phenomena in arteries. A smooth axi-symmetric cosine shaped constriction is considered. To mimic the realistic situation as far as possible, viscosity of blood is taken to be non-uniform, a shear-thinning viscosity model is considered and a physiologically relevant pulsatile flow is introduced. Taking advantage of axi-symmetry in the proposed problem, the stream function-vorticity formulation is used to solve the governing equations for blood flow. Effect of different parameters associated with the problem on the flow pattern has been investigated and disparities from the Newtonian case are discussed in detail.
