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Achieving high parallel performance for an unstructured unsteady turbomachinery CFD code

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2016

N. Hills
N. Hills*
Affiliation:
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Abstract

This paper describes the work done to achieve high parallel performance for an unstructured, unsteady turbomachinery computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. The aim of the work described here is to be able to scale problems to the thousands of processors that current and future machine architectures will provide. The CFD code is in design use in industry and is also used as a research tool at a number of universities. High parallel scalability has been achieved for a range of turbomachinery test cases, from steady-state hexahedral mesh cases to fully unsteady unstructured mesh cases. This has been achieved by a combination of code modification and consideration of the parallel partitioning strategy and resulting load balancing. A sliding plane option is necessary to run fully unsteady multistage turbomachinery test cases and this has been implemented within the CFD code. Sample CFD calculations of a full turbine including parts of the internal air system are presented.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 111 , Issue 1117 , March 2007 , pp. 185 - 193
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2007 

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