Use of the distributed computing at the castings solidification simulation

Abstract

Realization control volume method for calculation of non-stationary task of heat conductivity is presented in the article. This method can be applied for simulation of metal casting solidification in sand mold and other application. Distinctive feature of the developed method is possibility of application of the distributed computing which provides a good result on calculation speed, however demands the bigger volume of random access memory. In the calculation example, for a grid from 1 million elements the increase in calculation speed by 15÷20% was reached when using 2 cores of the Intel Core I-5 processor and by 30% when using 3 cores. Also there is a possibility of increase of calculations accuracy for the account of increase in quantity of calculated elements at identical calculation time.