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Parallel-in-Space-and-Time Simulation of the Three-Dimensional, Unsteady Navier-Stokes Equations for Incompressible Flow

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science 2017-05-18 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In this paper we combine the Parareal parallel-in-time method together with spatial parallelization and investigate this space-time parallel scheme by means of solving the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Parallelization of time stepping provides a new direction of parallelization and allows to employ additional cores to further speed up simulations after spatial parallelization has saturated. We report on numerical experiments performed on a Cray XE6, simulating a driven cavity flow with and without obstacles. Distributed memory parallelization is used in both space and time, featuring up to 2,048 cores in total. It is confirmed that the space-time-parallel method can provide speedup beyond the saturation of the spatial parallelization.

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@article{arxiv.1705.06149,
  title  = {Parallel-in-Space-and-Time Simulation of the Three-Dimensional, Unsteady Navier-Stokes Equations for Incompressible Flow},
  author = {Roberto Croce and Daniel Ruprecht and Rolf Krause},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06149},
  year   = {2017}
}