Acceleration of a two-dimensional Euler flow solver using commodity graphics hardware

The implementation of a two-dimensional Euler solver on graphics hardware is described. The graphics processing unit is highly parallelized and uses a programming model that is well suited to flow computation. Results for a transonic turbine cascade test-case are presented. For large grids (10(6) nodes) a 40 times speed-up compared with a Fortran implementation on a contemporary CPU is observed.