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Comprehending the performance bottlenecks at the core of the intricate hardware-software interactions exhibited by highly parallel programs on HPC clusters is crucial. This paper sheds light on the issue of automatically asynchronous MPI…
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We extend the Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints (BDDC) method to flows in porous media discretised by mixed-hybrid finite elements with combined mesh dimensions. Such discretisations appear when major geological fractures are…
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A multiscale stochastic-deterministic coupling method is proposed to investigate the complex interactions between turbulent and rarefied gas flows within a unified framework. This method intermittently integrates the general synthetic…
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The simulation of geometrically resolved rigid particles in a fluid relies on coupling algorithms to transfer momentum both ways between the particles and the fluid. In this article, the fluid flow is modeled with a parallel Lattice…