Numerical study of the vortex tube reconnection using vortex particle method on many graphics cards

21st Fluid Mechanics Conference

物理学;力学

Kudela, Henryk^1 ; Kosior, Andrzej^1

Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland^1

关键词: Head-on collision;    Multicore architectures;    Numerical computations;    Parallel Computation;    Single processors;    Vortex in cell methods;    Vortex particle method;    Vortex structures;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/530/1/012021/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/530/1/012021

学科分类：力学，机械学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Vortex Particle Methods are one of the most convenient ways of tracking the vorticity evolution. In the article we presented numerical recreation of the real life experiment concerning head-on collision of two vortex rings. In the experiment the evolution and reconnection of the vortex structures is tracked with passive markers (paint particles) which in viscous fluid does not follow the evolution of vorticity field. In numerical computations we showed the difference between vorticity evolution and movement of passive markers. The agreement with the experiment was very good. Due to problems with very long time of computations on a single processor the Vortex-in-Cell method was implemented on the multicore architecture of the graphics cards (GPUs). Vortex Particle Methods are very well suited for parallel computations. As there are myriads of particles in the flow and for each of them the same equations of motion have to be solved the SIMD architecture used in GPUs seems to be perfect. The main disadvantage in this case is the small amount of the RAM memory. To overcome this problem we created a multiGPU implementation of the VIC method. Some remarks on parallel computing are given in the article.