GPU accelerated MPS method for large-scale 3-D violent free surface flows

2019 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 677-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Chen ◽  
Decheng Wan
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Free Surface Flows ◽  
Surface Flows ◽  
Mps Method

Advanced CFD Simulations of free-surface flows around modern sailing yachts using a newly developed openFOAM solver

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janek Meyer ◽  
Hannes Renzsch ◽  
Kai Graf ◽  
Thomas Slawig
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Breaking Waves ◽  
Free Surface Flows ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Efficient Computation ◽  
Surface Flows ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Wide Range

While plain vanilla OpenFOAM has strong capabilities with regards to quite a few typical CFD-tasks, some problems actually require additional bespoke solvers and numerics for efficient computation of high-quality results. One of the fields requiring these additions is the computation of large-scale free-surface flows as found e.g. in naval architecture. This holds especially for the flow around typical modern yacht hulls, often planing, sometimes with surface-piercing appendages. Particular challenges include, but are not limited to, breaking waves, sharpness of interface, numerical ventilation (aka streaking) and a wide range of flow phenomenon scales. A new OF-based application including newly implemented discretization schemes, gradient computation and rigid body motion computation is described. In the following the new code will be validated against published experimental data; the effect on accuracy, computational time and solver stability will be shown by comparison to standard OF-solvers (interFoam / interDyMFoam) and Star CCM+. The code’s capabilities to simulate complex “real-world” flows are shown on a well-known racing yacht design.

scholarly journals Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Large-Scale Free Surface Flows with Heat and Contaminant Transfer in Reservoirs

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Wei Diao ◽  
Hao Yuan ◽  
Liang Chen ◽  
Xujin Zhang ◽  
Cunze Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Coupling Model ◽  
Free Surface Flows ◽  
Surface Flows ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Pollutant Distribution ◽  
Contaminant Transfer ◽  
Double Diffusive

The temperature distribution and pollutant distribution in large reservoirs have always been a hotspot in the field of hydraulics and environmentology, and the three-dimensional numerical modeling that can effectively simulate the interactions between the temperature fields, concentration fields, and flow fields needs to be proposed. The double-diffusive convection lattice Boltzmann method is coupled with a single-phase volume of fluid model for simulating heat and contaminant transfer in large-scale free surface flows. The coupling model is used to simulate the double-diffusive natural convection in a cubic cavity and the temperature distribution of a model reservoir. The mechanism of convection-diffusion, gravity sinking flow, and the complexity of the temperature and the pollutant redistribution process are analyzed. Good agreements between the simulated results and the reference data validate the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed coupling model in studying free surface flows with heat and contaminant transfer. At last, the temporal and spatial variations of flow state, water temperature stratification, and pollutant transport in the up-reservoir of a pumped-storage power station are simulated and analyzed by the proposed model. The obtained variations of the flow field agree well with the observations in the physical model test and in practical engineering. In addition, the simulated temperature field and concentration field are also consistent with the general rules, which demonstrates the feasibility of the coupling model in simulating temperature and pollutant distribution problems in realistic reservoirs and shows its good prospects in engineering application.

Multi-Resolution MPS Method for Free Surface Flows

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 1641018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenyuan Tang ◽  
Youlin Zhang ◽  
Decheng Wan
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Pressure Field ◽  
Fine Particles ◽  
Free Surface Flows ◽  
Surface Flows ◽  
Mps Method ◽  
Time Simulation ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Moving Particle ◽  
Dam Breaking

A multi-resolution moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method is applied into two-dimensional (2D) free surface flows based on our in-house particle solver MLParticle-SJTU in the present work. Considering the effect of different size particles, both the influence radiuses of two adjacent particles are replaced by the arithmetic mean of their interaction radiuses. Then the modifications for kernel function of differential operator models are derived, respectively. In order to validate the present multi-resolution MPS method, two cases are carried out. Firstly, a hydrostatic case is performed. The results show that the contour of pressure field by multi-resolution MPS is quite in agreement with that by single resolution MPS. Especially, the multi-resolution MPS can still provide a relative smooth pressure together with the single resolution MPS in the vicinity of the interface between the high resolution and low resolution particles. For a long time simulation, the kinetic energy of particles by multi-resolution MPS can decrease quickly to the same level as that of single resolution MPS. In addition, a 2D dam breaking flow is simulated and the multi-resolution case can run stably during the whole simulation. The pressure by the multi-resolution MPS is in agreement with experimental data together with single resolution MPS. The contour of pressure field by the former is also similar to that by the later. Finally, the simulation by multi-resolution MPS is as accurate as the traditional MPS with fine particles distributed in the whole domain and the corresponding CPU time can be reduced.

Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Violent Free Surface Flows by GPU-Based MPS Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 1843012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Chen ◽  
Decheng Wan
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Free Surface Flows ◽  
Dam Break ◽  
Impact Pressure ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Mps Method ◽  
Acceleration Technique ◽  
Calculation Step

The Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) method has been widely used in the field of computational fluid dynamics in recent years. However, the inefficient drawback of MPS method limits its three-dimensional (3D) large-scale applications. In order to overcome this disadvantage, a novel acceleration technique, graphics processing unit (GPU) parallel computing, is applied in MPS. Based on modified MPS method and GPU technique, an in-house solver MPSGPU-SJTU has been developed by using Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) language. In this paper, 3D dam break and sloshing, two typical violent flows with large deformation and nonlinear fragmentation of free surface are simulated by MPSGPU-SJTU solver. In dam break case, the results of fluid flied, water front, wave height and impact pressure by GPU simulation are compared to those by CPU calculation, experimental research, Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and Boundary Element Method (BEM) simulations. And the comparison of fluid field and impact pressure among GPU, CPU and experiment is made in sloshing flow. The accuracy of GPU solver is verified by these comparisons. Moreover, the computation time of every part in each calculation step is compared between GPU and CPU solvers. The results show that computational efficiency is improved dramatically by employing GPU acceleration technique.

scholarly journals MR-WC-MPS: A Multi-Resolution WC-MPS Method for Simulation of Free-Surface Flows

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Amin Nabian ◽  
Leila Farhadi
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Free Surface Flows ◽  
Submarine Landslide ◽  
Particle Methods ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Computational Domain ◽  
Surface Flows ◽  
Mps Method ◽  
Weakly Compressible ◽  
Moving Particle

A Multi-Resolution Weakly Compressible Moving-Particle Semi-Implicit (MR-WC-MPS) method is presented in this paper for simulation of free-surface flows. To reduce the computational costs, as with the multi-grid schemes used in mesh-based methods, there is also a need in particle methods to efficiently capture the characteristics of different flow regions with different levels of complexity in different spatial resolutions. The proposed MR-WC-MPS method allows the use of particles with different sizes in a computational domain, analogous to multi-resolution grid in grid-based methods. To evaluate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method, it is applied to the dam-break and submarine landslide tests. It is shown that the MR-WC-MPS results, while about 15% faster, are in good agreement with the conventional single-resolution MPS results and experimental results. The remarkable ability of the MR-WC-MPS method in providing robust savings in computational time for up to 60% is then shown by applying the method for simulation of extended submarine landslide test.

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