Computer simulation of liquids
Computer simulation of liquids
A fictitious domain/finite element method for particulate flows
Journal of Computational Physics
A fictitious domain formulation for flows with rigid particles: A non-Lagrange multiplier version
Journal of Computational Physics
Direct Numerical Simulation of Particulate Flows on 294912 Processor Cores
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
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Particulate flow is of great importance from both the scientific and engineering points of view. Owing to the complexity of particle-flow interactions, direct numerical simulations (DNS) of inertial particulate flow with finite-size particles have been limited to a very small number of particles, while the industrial applications involve larger numbers with many orders of magnitude. This article presents a parallel implementation of a fictitious domain method for the DNS of particulate flows. The method is thoroughly tested and its parallel performance on distributed memory clusters is evaluated on a large-scale problem. Finally, we present the results for the separation of 21,336 particles of two different densities in a viscous fluid. Although there is still a significant gap between DNS and the industrial applications, the present algorithm allows to simulate significantly large number of particles so that a meaningful statistical analysis can be performed. This will help in the development of new closure relations for the averaged models of multiphase flows.