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Despite decades of research, creating accurate, robust, and efficient lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) on non-uniform grids with seamless GPU acceleration remains challenging. This work introduces a novel strategy to address this challenge…
Sustaining a large fraction of single GPU performance in parallel computations is considered to be the major problem of GPU-based clusters. In this article, this topic is addressed in the context of a lattice Boltzmann flow solver that is…
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Immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) has been widely used for simulation of particle-laden flows recently. However, it was limited to small-scale simulations with no more than O(103) particles. Here, we expand IB-LBM for…
The lattice Boltzmann method exhibits excellent scalability on current supercomputing systems and has thus increasingly become an alternative method for large-scale non-stationary flow simulations, reaching up to a trillion grid nodes.…
In this paper, a new progressive mesh algorithm is introduced in order to perform fast physical simulations by the use of a lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) on a single-node multi-GPU architecture. This algorithm is able to mesh automatically…