Accession Number:

ADA461985

Title:

P-Refinement and P-Threads (Preprint)

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

BROWN UNIV PROVIDENCE RI DIV OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Personal Author(s):

• Dong, Steven
• Karniadakis, George E.

Report Date:

2002-08-15

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

P-type refinement leads to exponential decay of numerical errors for sufficiently smooth solutions and has been used effectively in turbulence and structural mechanics simulations in the context of spectral and hp finite element discretizations. However, it induces a computational cost of OPd1 in d dimensions, which is higher than lower-order methods. In this paper, we demonstrate that by employing multi-threading within MPI processes we manage to counter- balance the cost increase associated with P-refinement. This approach reduces effectively the wall clock time, and keeps it essentially constant as the polynomial order is increased while achieving exponential convergence rate. Since the number of threads within MPI processes can be dynamically adjusted through thread library functions, the algorithm can be readily adapted for dynamic P-refinement. The resulting hybrid MPIthreads dual-level parallelism is particularly suitable for modern supercomputers consisting of SMP nodes. We demonstrate this approach in simulations of two three-dimensional fluid dynamics problems.

Descriptors:

• *MESH
• *THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Subject Categories:

• Theoretical Mathematics
• Operations Research
• Computer Programming and Software
• Fluid Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE