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Parallel 3D Mortar Element Method for Adaptive Nonconforming MeshesHigh order methods are frequently used in computational simulation for their high accuracy. An efficient way to avoid unnecessary computation in smooth regions of the solution is to use adaptive meshes which employ fine grids only in areas where they are needed. Nonconforming spectral elements allow the grid to be flexibly adjusted to satisfy the computational accuracy requirements. The method is suitable for computational simulations of unsteady problems with very disparate length scales or unsteady moving features, such as heat transfer, fluid dynamics or flame combustion. In this work, we select the Mark Element Method (MEM) to handle the non-conforming interfaces between elements. A new technique is introduced to efficiently implement MEM in 3-D nonconforming meshes. By introducing an "intermediate mortar", the proposed method decomposes the projection between 3-D elements and mortars into two steps. In each step, projection matrices derived in 2-D are used. The two-step method avoids explicitly forming/deriving large projection matrices for 3-D meshes, and also helps to simplify the implementation. This new technique can be used for both h- and p-type adaptation. This method is applied to an unsteady 3-D moving heat source problem. With our new MEM implementation, mesh adaptation is able to efficiently refine the grid near the heat source and coarsen the grid once the heat source passes. The savings in computational work resulting from the dynamic mesh adaptation is demonstrated by the reduction of the the number of elements used and CPU time spent. MEM and mesh adaptation, respectively, bring irregularity and dynamics to the computer memory access pattern. Hence, they provide a good way to gauge the performance of computer systems when running scientific applications whose memory access patterns are irregular and unpredictable. We select a 3-D moving heat source problem as the Unstructured Adaptive (UA) grid benchmark, a new component of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks (NPB). In this paper, we present some interesting performance results of ow OpenMP parallel implementation on different architectures such as the SGI Origin2000, SGI Altix, and Cray MTA-2.
Document ID
20040084562
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Feng, Huiyu
(Computer Sciences Corp. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Mavriplis, Catherine
(George Washington Univ. Washington, DC, United States)
VanderWijngaart, Rob
(Computer Sciences Corp. Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Biswas, Rupak
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 29, 2004
Subject Category
Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods
Location: RI
Country: United States
Start Date: June 21, 2004
End Date: June 25, 2004
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NASA Order A-61812-D
CONTRACT_GRANT: DTTDTTS59-99-D-00437
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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