Parallel numerical simulation for supersonic flows using zonal overlapped grids and local time steps for common and distributed memory multiprocessors.

摘要

Parallel Navier-Stokes codes are developed to solve both two- dimensional and three-dimensional flow fields in and around ramjet and nose tip configurations. A multi-zone overlapped grid technique is used to extend an explicit finite-difference method to more complicated geometries. Parallel implementations are developed for execution on both distributed and common-memory multiprocessor architectures. For the steady-state solutions, the use of the local time-step method has the inherent advantage of reducing the communications overhead commonly incurred by parallel implementations. Computational results of the codes are given for a series of test problems. The parallel partitioning of computational zones is also discussed. 5 refs., 18 figs.