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BibliographyMehl, Miriam; Uekermann, Benjamin; Bijl, Hester; Blom, David; Gatzhammer, Bernhard; van Zuijlen, Alexander: Parallel coupling numerics for partitioned fluid–structure interaction simulations.
In: Computers & Mathematics with Applications. Bd. 71(4).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 869-891, german.
Elsevier, January 2016.
ISSN: 0898-1221; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2015.12.025.
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CR-SchemaJ.2 (Physical Sciences and Engineering)
KeywordsFluid–structure interaction, partitioned simulation, parallel coupling methods, quasi-Newton, high performance computing
Abstract

Within the last decade, very sophisticated numerical methods for the iterative and partitioned solution of fluid-structure interaction problems have been developed that allow for high accuracy and very complex scenarios. The combination of these two aspects – accuracy and com- plexity – demands very high computational grid resolutions and, thus, high performance computing methods designed for massively parallel hardware architectures. For those architectures, currently used coupling method that mainly work with a staggered execution of the fluid and structure solver, i.e., the execution of one solver after the other in every outer iteration, lead to severe load imbal- ances: if the flow solver, e.g., scales on a very large number of processors but the structural solver does not due to its limited amount of data and required operations, almost all processors assigned to the coupled simulations are idle while the structure solver executes. We propose two new iterative coupling methods that allow for simultaneous execution of flow and structure solvers. In both cases, we show that pure fixed-point iterations based on the parallel execution of the solvers do not lead to good results, but the combination of parallel solver execution and so-called quasi-Newton methods yields very efficient and robust methods. Those methods are known to be very efficient also for the stabilization of critical scenarios solved with the standard staggered solver execution. We demon- strate the competitive convergence of our methods for various established benchmark scenarios. Both methods are perfectly suited for use with black-box solvers because the quasi-Newton approach uses solely in- and output information of the solvers to approximate the effect of the unknown Jacobians that would be required in a standard Newton solver.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Simulation of Large Systems
Entry dateMarch 3, 2016
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