High performance parallel computing of flows in complex geometries: I. Methods

Large Eddy Simulations of gaseous flames in gas turbine combustion chambers

“…However and based on current state-of-the-art LES solvers, key features seem to emerge and this section summarizes them with a specific emphasis on their advantages and disadvantages. Readers can find details associated to High Performance Computing for CFD on massively parallel systems in recent review papers [201,202]. A non-comprehensive list of codes dedicated to LES of reacting flows is provided in Table 3 along with the numerical characteristics retained in each case and the research groups involved in their developments.…”

Using LES to Study Reacting Flows and Instabilities in Annular Combustion Chambers

“…Figure 2 shows a perfect scaling of the speed-up up to 8,000 processors ARNL , Sicortex (1) CRAY, CRAY XT5 (2) CERFACS, BlueGene /L (3) CINES, GENCI, SGI Altix ICE (4) ARNL, Bluegene P, INCITE (5) (1) 40M cells case -1 step chemistry and a very reasonable speed up up to 16,000 processors [36,37]. More details on the parallel structure of the code can be found in [12]. This performance is the key to being able to compute the configurations described here.…”

The OneraelsACFD software: input from research and feedback from industry

“…By first considering the research side, the Cerfacs organization (Toulouse) is an important elsA partner since 2001 and has been participating over the last decade to research studies and software development dealing in particular with mesh strategies [13], numerical methods [20][21][22][23][24] and CPU efficiency [25]. Other main research partners are the Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics lab (LMFA,École Centrale de Lyon) [26] and Cenaero (Belgium) [27] for turbomachinery flow simulation, and the Dynfluid lab (Arts et Métiers ParisTech) for high accuracy numerical schemes [28,29] (see Sect.…”

“…In addition to the 17 references [4][5][6][7]11,12,16,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]28,29] based on elsA in peerreviewed journals, the following list (alphabetically by the first author) gathers nearly 100 other papers dealing with elsA in such journals. This list is again a demonstration of cooperative work about elsA since the co-authors often belong to several research labs, or to both research laboratories and industry.…”