Product category:
Fluid, thermal, noise and vibration analysis software
News Release from: Flow Science | Subject: Flow-3D/MP v3.0
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 16 April 2008
Software upgrade provides faster fluid
simulation
Flow Science has released that a new release of the distributed memory version of its Flow-3D computational fluid dynamics software is now available.
Flow Science's Flow-3D/MP v3.0 computational fluid dynamics software provides users with more efficient execution and faster simulations while continuing to deliver highly accurate results This new, robust version for clusters gives engineers shorter design cycles for simulating real-world manufacturing processes involving large flow domains with complex flow phenomena
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Simulation raises separator flow rate
Computer simulation has contributed to increased production in a North Sea oil field by helping to conceive and validate design changes that increased the output of the three-phase separator.
Multi-block gridding stars in new CFD release
A major new release of Flow-3D computational fluid dynamics software includes multi-block gridding, the ability to create multiple grid blocks in the design of a simulation
Flow-3D/MP v3.0 has undergone rigorous testing.
Efficiencies ranging from 50% to nearly 90% on a variety of problem types have been obtained on 8 processors.
Scaling has been demonstrated on up to 16 processors.
Runtime improvements on 8 processors range from 7X speed-up in an ideal case to 4X on a very challenging high-speed filling case.
Flow-3D/MP v3.0 has the same capabilities as the serial 9.2.1 version of Flow-3D.
The MP version includes all the physical models of the serial version, including Flow-3D's General Moving Objects Collision Model that allows moving objects to interact with fluids and other solid objects in a realistic fashion and faster execution through the use of Unstructured Memory Allocation and Locally Implicit Advection.
A complete list of the features added in Flow-3D version 9.2.1 can be found on Flow Science's website.
Flow-3D/MP, first released in 2006, uses multiblock methodology to decompose the computational domain into blocks, which are then distributed among the nodes in a cluster.
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming model is used to communicate data between block interfaces.
Flow-3D/MP v3.0 uses the MPICH2 implementation of MPI.
• Flow Science: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Engineeringtalk email newsletter
• Engineeringtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
