SCALABLE PARALLEL FINITE ELEMENT COMPUTATIONS OF RAYLEIGH BENARD MARANGONI PROBLEMS IN A MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT

Objective:
  • 3D incompressible Navier Stokes, coupled with heat transfer
  • Include surface tension effects in a microgravity environment

    Numerical experiments:

  • development of new scalable parallel algorithms
  • gradient type iterative methods
  • domain decomposition

    Successful implementation:

  • linear scaling on T3D
  • very high performance (16 Gflops on 512 node T3D)

    Experimental results:

  • surface tension driven flows for high Marangoni numbers

    • Project Director: Graham F. Carey, CFDLab, UT Austin.
    e-mail: carey@cfdlab.ae.utexas.edu