High-Performance Computation of a Jet in Cross Flow by Lattice Boltzmann Based Parallel Direct Numerical Simulation
State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, P.R. China
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015
@article{lei2015high,
title={High-Performance Computation of a Jet in Cross Flow by Lattice Boltzmann Based Parallel Direct Numerical Simulation},
author={Lei, Jiang and Wang, Xian and Xie, Gongnan},
year={2015}
}
Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a round jet in crossflow based on lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM) is carried out on multi-GPU cluster. Data-parallel SIMT (Single- Instruction Multiple-Thread) characteristic of GPU matches the parallelism of LBM well, which leads to the high efficiency of GPU on the LBM solver. With present GPU settings (6 Nvidia Telsa K20M), the present DNS simulation can be completed in several hours. A grid system of 1.5×108 is adopted and largest jet Reynolds number reaches 3000. The jet-to-free-stream velocity ratio is set as 3.3. The jet is orthogonal to the mainstream flow direction. The validated code produces good agreements with experiments. Vortical structures of CRVP, shear-layer vortices and horse-shoe vortices are presented and analyzed based on velocity fields and vorticity distributions. Turbulent statistical quantities of Reynolds stress are also displayed. Coherent structures are revealed in a very fine resolution based on the second invariant of the velocity gradients.
March 6, 2015 by hgpu
