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nsCouette -- A high-performance code for direct numerical simulations of turbulent Taylor-Couette flow

Fluid Dynamics 2020-01-22 v3 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Chaotic Dynamics Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

Abstract

We present nsCouette, a highly scalable software tool to solve the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluid flow between differentially heated and independently rotating, concentric cylinders. It is based on a pseudospectral spatial discretization and dynamic time-stepping. It is implemented in modern Fortran with a hybrid MPI-OpenMP parallelization scheme and thus designed to compute turbulent flows at high Reynolds and Rayleigh numbers. An additional GPU implementation (C-CUDA) for intermediate problem sizes and a basic version for turbulent pipe flow (nsPipe) are also provided.

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@article{arxiv.1908.00587,
  title  = {nsCouette -- A high-performance code for direct numerical simulations of turbulent Taylor-Couette flow},
  author = {Jose Manuel Lopez and Daniel Feldmann and Markus Rampp and Alberto Vela-Martin and Liang Shi and Marc Avila},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00587},
  year   = {2020}
}

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~3000 words, 3 figures (in colour)