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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…

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

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…

Approximately $75 \%$ of the raw material and $50 \%$ of the products in the chemical industry are granular materials. The Discrete Element Method (DEM) provides detailed insights of phenomena at particle scale and it is therefore often…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-18 Shahab Golshan , Peter Munch , Rene Gassmoller , Martin Kronbichler , Bruno Blais

We discuss the use of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to simulate the dynamics of granular systems made up of elements with nontrivial geometries. The DEM simulator is GPU accelerated and can handle elements whose shape is defined as the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Ruochun Zhang , Colin Vanden Heuvel , Alexander Schepelmann , Arno Rogg , Dimitrios Apostolopoulos , Samuel Chandler , Radu Serban , Dan Negrut

We present a GPU implementation of LAMMPS, a widely-used parallel molecular dynamics (MD) software package, and show 5x to 13x single node speedups versus the CPU-only version of LAMMPS. This new CUDA package for LAMMPS also enables…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-08 Christian R. Trott , Lars Winterfeld , Paul S. Crozier

Immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) has been widely used for simulation of particle-laden flows recently. However, it was limited to small-scale simulations with no more than O(103) particles. Here, we expand IB-LBM for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 Maoqiang Jiang , Jing Li , Zhaohui Liu

With the growth of available computational resource, CFD-DEM (computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method) becomes an increasingly promising and feasible approach for the study of sediment transport. Several existing CFD-DEM…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 Rui Sun , Heng Xiao

This paper presents an improved immersed moving boundary model (IBM) for solving complex fluid-particle interactions in a coupled lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and an adhesive discrete element method (DEM), using the "partially saturated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-21 Wenwei Liu , Chuan-Yu Wu

Numerical modeling of nematic liquid crystals using the tensorial Landau-de Gennes (LdG) theory provides detailed insights into the structure and energetics of the enormous variety of possible topological defect configurations that may…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-19 Daniel M. Sussman , Daniel A. Beller

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is an efficient simulation technique for computational fluid mechanics and beyond. It is based on a simple stream-and-collide algorithm on Cartesian grids, which is easily compatible with modern machine…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Mario Christopher Bedrunka , Dominik Wilde , Martin Kliemank , Dirk Reith , Holger Foysi , Andreas Krämer

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

High-performance computing systems are more and more often based on accelerators. Computing applications targeting those systems often follow a host-driven approach in which hosts offload almost all compute-intensive sections of the code…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-15 E. Calore , A. Gabbana , S. F. Schifano , R. Tripiccione

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

We propose a highly versatile computational framework for the simulation of cellular blood flow focusing on extreme performance without compromising accuracy or complexity. The tool couples the lattice Boltzmann solver Palabos for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Christos Kotsalos , Jonas Latt , Joel Beny , Bastien Chopard

This paper describes `Ludwig', a versatile code for the simulation of Lattice-Boltzmann (LB) models in 3-D on cubic lattices. In fact `Ludwig' is not a single code, but a set of codes that share certain common routines, such as I/O and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jean-Christophe Desplat , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Peter Bladon

Implicit methods and GPU parallelization are two distinct yet powerful strategies for accelerating high-order CFD algorithms. However, few studies have successfully integrated both approaches within high-speed flow solvers. The core…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Hongyu Liu , Xing Ji , Yuan Fu , Kun Xu

We employ the Partially Saturated Cells Method (PSM) to model the interaction between the fluid flow and solid moving objects as an extension to the conventional lattice Boltzmann method. We introduce an efficient and accurate method for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-28 P. Suffa , S. Kemmler , H. Koestler , U. Ruede

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) for gas-solid flow is implemented on a multi-scale supercomputing system, Mole-8.5, featuring massive parallel GPU-CPU hybrid computing, for which the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is deployed together…

In high-performance computing, hotspot GPU kernels are primary bottlenecks, and expert manual tuning is costly and hard to port. Large language model methods often assume kernels can be compiled and executed cheaply, which fails in large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ruifan Chu , Anbang Wang , Xiuxiu Bai , Shuai Liu , Xiaoshe Dong