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Deploying large language models (LLMs) on end-user devices is gaining importance due to benefits in responsiveness, privacy, and operational cost. Yet the limited memory and compute capability of mobile and desktop GPUs make efficient…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Rongxiang Wang , Kangyuan Shu , Felix Xiaozhu Lin

We present Sailfish, an open source fluid simulation package implementing the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) on modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) using CUDA/OpenCL. We take a novel approach to GPU code implementation and use run-time…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Michal Januszewski , Marcin Kostur

Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) reduces computational costs in CFD by concentrating resolution where needed, but efficiently embedding complex, non-aligned geometries on GPUs remains challenging. We present a GPU-native algorithm for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Khodr Jaber , Ebenezer E. Essel , Pierre E. Sullivan

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.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Florian Schornbaum , Ulrich Rüde

A upscaled lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for flow simulations in heterogeneous porous media, at both pore and Darcy scales, is proposed in this paper. In the micro-scale simulations, we model flows using LBM with the modified Guo et al.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Jun Li , Donald Brown

The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) is a computational technique of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) that has gained popularity due to its high parallelism and ability to handle complex geometries with minimal effort. Although LBM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Luigi Crisci , Biagio Cosenza , Giorgio Amati , Matteo Turisini

Fluid dynamics simulations with the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) are very memory-intensive. Alongside reduction in memory footprint, significant performance benefits can be achieved by using FP32 (single) precision compared to FP64…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Moritz Lehmann , Mathias J. Krause , Giorgio Amati , Marcello Sega , Jens Harting , Stephan Gekle

In this work an optimized multicomponent lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is deployed to simulate axisymmetric turbulent jets of a fluid evolving in a quiescent, immiscible environment over a wide range of dynamic regimes. The implementation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-26 Andrea Montessori , Luiz A. Hegele , Marco Lauricella

Volumetric data structures typically prioritize data locality, focusing on efficient memory access patterns. This singular focus can neglect other critical performance factors, such as occupancy, communication, and kernel fusion. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Massimiliano Meneghin , Ahmed H. Mahmoud

In this paper we presented a lattice Boltzmann with square grid for compressible flow problems. Triple level velocity is considered for each cell. Migration step use discrete velocity but continuous parameters are utilized to calculate…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-09-16 M. Komeili , M. Mirzaei , M. Shabouei

We present a GPU-native mesh adaptation procedure that incorporates a complex geometry represented with a triangle mesh within a primary Cartesian computational grid organized as a forest of octrees. A C++/CUDA program implements the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Khodr Jaber , Ebenezer E. Essel , Pierre E. Sullivan

We introduce a novel quantum algorithm for the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) based on the one-step simplified LBM. The structure of the algorithm allows for more flexibility in modelling different physics in contrast to earlier quantum…

In this work, we present a memory-efficient, high-performance GPU framework for moment-based lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) with fluid-solid coupling. We introduce a split-kernel scheme that decouples fluid updates from solid boundary…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yixin Chen , Wei Li , David I. W. Levin , Kui Wu

We propose to express the forward-backward algorithm in terms of operations between sparse matrices in a specific semiring. This new perspective naturally leads to a GPU-friendly algorithm which is easy to implement in Julia or any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Lucas Ondel , Léa-Marie Lam-Yee-Mui , Martin Kocour , Caio Filippo Corro , Lukáš Burget

The sparse representation of graphs has shown great potential for accelerating the computation of graph applications (e.g., Social Networks, Knowledge Graphs) on traditional computing architectures (CPU, GPU, or TPU). But the exploration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bo Lyu , Shengbo Wang , Shiping Wen , Kaibo Shi , Yin Yang , Lingfang Zeng , Tingwen Huang

The lattice Boltzmann method has become a widely adopted approach in computational fluid dynamics, offering unique advantages in mesoscopic kinetic modeling, intrinsic parallelism, and simple treatment of boundary conditions. However, its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Ye Ji , Monica Lacatus , Matthias Möller

Numerical codes using the Lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBM) for simulating one- or two-phase flows are widely compiled and run on graphical process units. However, those computational units necessitate to re-write the program by using a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Werner Verdier , Pierre Kestener , Alain Cartalade

Running large-scale computer codes for huge fluid flow problems requires not only large supercomputers but also efficient and well-optimized computer codes that save the resources of those supercomputers. This paper evaluates the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Maja Bacza , Tadeusz Tomczak , Maciej Matyka

We propose different implementations of the sparse matrix--dense vector multiplication (\spmv{}) for finite fields and rings $\Zb/m\Zb$. We take advantage of graphic card processors (GPU) and multi-core architectures. Our aim is to improve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-09 Brice Boyer , Jean-Guillaume Dumas , Pascal Giorgi

Lattice Boltzmann method models offer a novel framework for the simulation of high Reynolds number dilute gravity currents. The numerical algorithm is well suited to acceleration via implementation on massively parallel computer…