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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…

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Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) enables efficient computation of flows by providing high resolution in critical regions while allowing for coarsening in areas where fine detail is unnecessary. While early AMR software packages relied solely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Khodr Jaber , Ebenezer Essel , Pierre Sullivan

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Christophe Coreixas , Jonas Latt

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Julien Duchateau , François Rousselle , Nicolas Maquignon , Gilles Roussel , Christophe Renaud

Simulating fluid-granular flows is crucial for understanding natural disasters, industrial processes, and visually realistic phenomena in computer graphics. These systems are challenging to simulate because of the strong nonlinear coupling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingqiao Li , Kui Wu , Haozhe Su , Tianhong Gao , Mengyu Chu , Chenfanfu Jiang , Wei Li , Baoquan Chen

There exists an increasing interest for using immersed boundary methods (IBMs) (Peskin 2000) to model moving objects in computational fluid dynamics. Indeed, this approach is particularly efficient, because the fluid mesh does not require…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 Joel Beny , Jonas Latt

We describe a high-performance implementation of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for sparse 3D geometries on graphic processors (GPU). The main contribution of this work is a data layout that allows to minimise the number of redundant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Tadeusz Tomczak , Roman G. Szafran

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

We show feasibility and benefits of porting an adaptive multi-scale kinetic-fluid code to CPU-GPU systems. Challenges are due to the irregular data access for adaptive Cartesian mesh, vast difference of computational cost between kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Sergey Zabelok , Robert Arslanbekov , Vladimir Kolobov

A high-performance implementation of a multiphase lattice Boltzmann method based on the conservative Allen-Cahn model supporting high-density ratios and high Reynolds numbers is presented. Metaprogramming techniques are used to generate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-14 Markus Holzer , Martin Bauer , Ulrich Rüde

This paper presents a heterogeneous adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) framework for efficient simulation of moderately stiff reactive problems. This framework features an elaborate subcycling-in-time algorithm along with a specialized…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Yuqi Wang , Yadong Zeng , Ralf Deiterding , Jianhan Liang

Forests play an important role in influencing the wind resource in atmospheric boundary layers and the fatigue life of wind turbines. Due to turbulence, a difficulty in the simulation of the forest effects is that flow statistical and…

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…

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

We describe an implementation of compressible inviscid fluid solvers with block-structured adaptive mesh refinement on Graphics Processing Units using NVIDIA's CUDA. We show that a class of high resolution shock capturing schemes can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Peng Wang , Tom Abel , Ralf Kaehler

Lattice-Boltzmann methods are known for their simplicity, efficiency and ease of parallelization, usually relying on uniform Cartesian meshes with a strong bond between spatial and temporal discretization. This fact complicates the crucial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Thomas Bellotti , Loïc Gouarin , Benjamin Graille , Marc Massot

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

A novel coupled level-set lattice Boltzmann method on adaptive Cartesian grids for simulating liquid-gas multiphase flows is presented. The approach addresses the inherent challenges of accurately modeling multiphase systems characterized…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-12 Julian Vorspohl , Yuxing Peng , Matthias Meinke , Dominik Krug , Wolfgang Schröder

A GPU-accelerated version of the lattice Boltzmann method for efficient simulation of soft materials is introduced. Unlike standard approaches, this method reconstructs the distribution functions from available hydrodynamic variables…

The ensemble data assimilation of computational fluid dynamics simulations based on the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and the local ensemble transform Kalman filter (LETKF) is implemented and optimized on a GPU supercomputer based on…

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