Journal:Informatica
Volume 27, Issue 1 (2016), pp. 161–178
Abstract
In this work, we study the efficiency of developed OpenFOAM-based parallel solver for the simulation of heat transfer in and around the electrical power cables. First benchmark problem considers three cables directly buried in the soil. We study and compare the efficiency of conjugate gradient solver with diagonal incomplete Cholesky (DIC) preconditioner, generalized geometric-algebraic multigrid GAMG solver from OpenFOAM and conjugate gradient solver with GAMG multigrid solver used as preconditioner. The convergence and parallel scalability of the solvers are presented and analyzed on quadrilateral and acute triangle meshes. Second benchmark problem considers a more complicated case, when cables are placed into plastic pipes, which are buried in the soil. Then a coupled multi-physics problem is solved, which describes the heat transfer in cables, air and soil. Non-standard parallelization approach is presented for multi-physics solver. We show the robustness of selected parallel preconditioners. Parallel numerical tests are performed on the cluster of multicore computers.
Journal:Informatica
Volume 15, Issue 3 (2004), pp. 363–378
Abstract
The present paper describes the development and the performance of parallel FEM software for solving various CFD problems. Domain decomposition strategy and parallel iterative GMRES solver have been adapted to the universal space‐time FEM code FEMTOOL, which allows implementation of any partial differential equation with minor expenses. The developed data structures, the static load balancing and the inter‐processor communication algorithms have been particularly suited for homogeneous distributed memory PC clusters. The universality of the considered parallel algorithms has been validated solving applications described by the Poisson equation, by the convective transport equation and by the Navier–Stokes equations. Three typical benchmark problems have been solved in order to perform the efficiency study. The performance of parallel computations, the speed‐up and the efficiency have been measured on three BEOWULF PC clusters as well as on the cluster of IBM RISC workstations and on the IBM SP2 supercomputer.