Direct solution of the Boltzmann equation for a binary mixture on GPUs
Dipartimento di Matematica del Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
AIP Conf. Proc. 1333, pp. 884-889, 2011
@inproceedings{frezzotti2011direct,
title={Direct solution of the Boltzmann equation for a binary mixture on GPUs},
author={Frezzotti, A. and Ghiroldi, G.P. and Gibelli, L.},
booktitle={American Institute of Physics Conference Series},
volume={1333},
pages={884–889},
year={2011}
}
We show how to accelerate the numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation for a binary gas mixture by using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). In order to fully exploit the computational power of the GPU, we adopt a semi-regular method of solution which combines a finite difference discretization of the free-streaming term with a Monte Carlo evaluation of the collision integral. The efficiency of the code is demonstrated by studying the propagation of plane harmonic waves of small amplitude in a binary gas mixture of hard spheres for a wide range of Knudsen numbers and wave frequencies. The GPU-based code is about two order of magnitudes faster than the CPU version thus proving that GPUs can substantially speedup the numerical solution of kinetic equations.
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