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A rigorous asymptotic analysis of the Boltzmann equation for small Knudsen numbers leads, in the general case, to more complicated sets of differential equations than widely used to describe the behavior of gas in terms of classical fluid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Oleg Rogozin

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the simulation of fluid flow undertaken with the use of computational hardware. The underlying equations are computationally challenging to solve and necessitate high performance computing (HPC) to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zachary Cooper-Baldock , Brenda Vara Almirall , Kiao Inthavong

In modern low-power embedded platforms, floating-point (FP) operations emerge as a major contributor to the energy consumption of compute-intensive applications with large dynamic range. Experimental evidence shows that 50% of the energy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Giuseppe Tagliavini , Stefan Mach , Davide Rossi , Andrea Marongiu , Luca Benini

Data-driven methods demonstrate considerable potential for accelerating the inherently expensive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers. Nevertheless, pure machine-learning surrogate models face challenges in ensuring physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-12 Clément Caron , Philippe Lauret , Alain Bastide

We propose a method for reducing the spatial discretization error of coarse computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problems by enhancing the quality of low-resolution simulations using deep learning. We feed the model with fine-grid data after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jesus Gonzalez-Sieiro , David Pardo , Vincenzo Nava , Victor M. Calo , Markus Towara

One of the current challenges in physically-based simulations, and, more specifically, fluid simulations, is to produce visually appealing results at interactive rates, capable of being used in multiple forms of media. In recent times, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Pedro Centeno , João Madeiras Pereira

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are essential for analyzing and optimizing fluid flows in a wide range of real-world applications. These simulations involve approximating the solutions of the Navier-Stokes differential…

Computational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction simulations involving moving and deforming bodies is extremely hard. In this work, we present a graphical processing unit (GPU) optimized implementation of the sharp-interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal

Over the past 30 years, the cell-centred finite volume method has developed to become a viable alternative to the finite element method in the field of computational solid mechanics. The current article presents an open-source toolbox for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-05 P. Cardiff , A. Karač , P. De Jaeger , H. Jasak , J. Nagy , A. Ivanković , Ž. Tuković

Numerical precision in large-scale scientific computations has become an emerging topic due to recent developments in computer hardware. Lower floating point precision offers the potential for significant performance improvements, but the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-05 Martin Karp , Niclas Jansson , Saleh Rezaeiravesh , Stefano Markidis , Philipp Schlatter

Reduced precision floating point arithmetic is now routinely deployed in numerical weather forecasting over short timescales. However the applicability of these reduced precision techniques to longer timescale climate simulations -…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Tom Kimpson , E. Adam Paxton , Matthew Chantry , Tim Palmer

Detailed chemistry-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are computationally expensive due to the solution of the underlying chemical kinetics system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Here, we introduce a novel…

The modern trend in High-Performance Computing (HPC) involves the use of accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) alongside Central Processing Units (CPUs) to speed up numerical operations in various applications. Leading…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Giulio Malenza , Giovanni Stabile , Filippo Spiga , Robert Birke , Marco Aldinucci

The present paper deals with the problem of improving the efficiency of large scale turbulent flow simulations. The high-fidelity methods for modelling turbulent flows become available for a wider range of applications thanks to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Boris Krasnopolsky

Resistive random access memory (ReRAM) is a promising technology that can perform low-cost and in-situ matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) in analog domain. Scientific computing requires high-precision floating-point (FP) processing.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Linghao Song , Fan Chen , Xuehai Qian , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

The progress made in accelerating simulations of fluid flow using GPUs, and the challenges that remain, are surveyed. The review first provides an introduction to GPU computing and programming, and discusses various considerations for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-04 Kyle E Niemeyer , Chih-Jen Sung

The never-ending computational demand from simulations of turbulence makes computational fluid dynamics (CFD) a prime application use case for current and future exascale systems. High-order finite element methods, such as the spectral…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Martin Karp , Estela Suarez , Jan H. Meinke , Måns I. Andersson , Philipp Schlatter , Stefano Markidis , Niclas Jansson

High-fidelity simulations of unsteady fluid flow are now possible with advancements in high-performance computing hardware and software frameworks. Since computational fluid dynamics (CFD) computations are dominated by linear algebraic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Rahul Sundar , Dipanjan Majumdar , Chhote Lal Shah , Sunetra Sarkar

Machine learning is rapidly becoming a core technology for scientific computing, with numerous opportunities to advance the field of computational fluid dynamics. In this Perspective, we highlight some of the areas of highest potential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-04 Ricardo Vinuesa , Steven L. Brunton

The study addresses the problem of precision in floating-point (FP) computations. A method for estimating the errors which affect intermediate and final results is proposed and a summary of many software simulations is discussed. The basic…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Glauco Masotti