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We present a new solver for massively parallel simulations of fully three-dimensional multiphase flows. The solver runs on a variety of computer architectures from laptops to supercomputers and on 65536 threads or more (limited only by the…
In this paper we propose a new modeling framework for large eddy simulations (LES) of particle-laden turbulent flows that captures the interaction between the particle and fluid phase on both the resolved and subgrid-scales. Unlike the vast…
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An efficient technique to simulate turbulent particle-laden flow at high mass loadings within the four-way coupled simulation regime is presented. The technique implements large eddy simulation, discrete phase simulation, a deterministic…
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The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations for steady-state assessment of incompressible turbulent flows remain the workhorse for practical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. Consequently, improvements in speed or…
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We present a computational method for extreme-scale simulations of incompressible turbulent wall flows at high Reynolds numbers. The numerical algorithm extends a popular method for solving second-order finite differences Poisson/Helmholtz…
We optimize the jet mixing using large eddy simulations (LES) at a Reynolds number of $3000$. Key methodological enablers consist of Bayesian optimization, a surrogate model enhanced by deep learning, and persistent data topology for…
Non-ideal state equations are needed to compute a growing number of engineering-relevant problems. The additional computational overhead from the complex thermodynamics accounts for a significant portion of the total computation, especially…
Current trends in parallel processors call for the design of efficient massively parallel algorithms for scientific computing. Parallel algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations of thermodynamic ensembles of particles have received little…
Explicit filtering in large eddy simulation (LES) of a turbulent barotropic flow on the sphere in spectral space is studied and compared to implicit filtering. Here, a smooth filter is applied to the nondivergent barotropic vorticity…
This paper introduces a fast Central Processing Unit (CPU) implementation of geodesic morphological operations using stream processing. In contrast to the current state-of-the-art, that focuses on achieving insensitivity to the filter sizes…
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In this paper we present an advanced numerical method to simulate a real life challenging industrial problem that consists of the non-destructive testing in steam generators. We develop a finite element technique that handles the big data…