Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
Volume 227, Issue 24, Pages 10148-10161Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.08.023
Keywords
GPU; Brook; Stream processing; Compressible flow; Euler equations
Funding
- US Department of Energy ASC [LLNL B341491]
- Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC)
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Graphics processing units are capable of impressive computing performance up to 518 Gflops peak performance. Various groups have been using these processors for general purpose computing; most efforts have focussed on demonstrating relatively basic calculations, e.g. numerical linear algebra, or physical simulations for Visualization purposes with limited accuracy. This paper describes the simulation of a hypersonic vehicle configuration with detailed geometry and accurate boundary conditions using the compressible Euler equations. To the authors' knowledge, this is the most sophisticated calculation of this kind in terms of complexity of the geometry, the physical model, the numerical methods employed, and the accuracy of the solution. The Navier-Stokes Stanford University Solver (NSSUS) was used for this purpose. NSSUS is a multi-block structured code with a provably stable and accurate numerical discretization which uses a vertex-based finite-difference method. A multi-grid scheme is used to accelerate the solution of the system. Based on a comparison of the Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA 8800GTX, speed-tips of over 40x were demonstrated for simple test geometries and 20x for complex geometries. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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