Parallel Adaptive High-Order CFD Simulations Characterizing SOFIA Cavitiy AcousticsThis paper presents large-scale MPI-parallel computational uid dynamics simulations for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). SOFIA is an airborne, 2.5-meter infrared telescope mounted in an open cavity in the aft fuselage of a Boeing 747SP. These simulations focus on how the unsteady ow eld inside and over the cavity interferes with the optical path and mounting structure of the telescope. A tempo- rally fourth-order accurate Runge-Kutta, and a spatially fth-order accurate WENO-5Z scheme were used to perform implicit large eddy simulations. An immersed boundary method provides automated gridding for complex geometries and natural coupling to a block-structured Cartesian adaptive mesh re nement framework. Strong scaling studies using NASA's Pleiades supercomputer with up to 32k CPU cores and 4 billion compu- tational cells shows excellent scaling. Dynamic load balancing based on execution time on individual AMR blocks addresses irregular numerical cost associated with blocks con- taining boundaries. Limits to scaling beyond 32k cores are identi ed, and targeted code optimizations are discussed.
Document ID
20180002154
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Barad, Michael F. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Brehm, Christoph (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Kiris, Cetin C. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Biswas, Rupak (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
April 4, 2018
Publication Date
February 26, 2015
Subject Category
Instrumentation And PhotographyFluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics
Report/Patent Number
ARC-E-DAA-TN20792
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics