Applications of Supercomputers in Engineering II

by C.A. Brebbia (Editor), D. Howard (Editor), A. Peters (Editor)

Overview

This book comprises an edited version of the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applications of Supercomputers in Engineering which took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA during August 1991. The Conference was organized by the Wessex Insti­ tute of Technology, Southampton, UK with the support of the International Society for Boundary Elements. The first International Conference on Ap­ plications of Supercomputers in Engineering held in Southampton, UK in September 1989 was a very successful meeting and the resulting Conference Proceedings are now widely distributed throughout the world. The revolutionary aspects of the next generation of computers are now fully recognised by many engineers and scientists. Vector and parallel computers form the basis of the computing power needed to address the complex problems with which engineers are faced. The new machines not only increase the size of the problems which can be solved, but also require a different computational approach to obtain the most efficient results.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851666959
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	08/31/1991
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	562
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Section 1: Parallel Processing.- Multi Block Flow Solvers for Use on Parallel Computers.- Difficulties in Parallelising Efficient Sequential Codes.- Mixed Parallelism for Single Alternating Group Explicit Method.- The Parallel Processing Concept on the Siemens Nixdorf S Series and its Use in Engineering Applications.- Parallelism in the Boundary Element Method: fine grain and course grain.- Tds2gks: Breaking the TDS Text Barrier.- Operating System Support for a Parallel Cellular System.- Section 2: Visualization and Graphics.- Opening a Window on the Simulation of a Total Artificial Heart.- Modelling and Visualization of Impact Dynamic Processes.- Crosshole Tomography Animation in X Windows with Convex-2/IBM RS 6000 Client-Server Display Connection.- Section 3: Performance.- A Critical Discussion of Supercomputer Architectures for Engineering Applications.- A High Performance Vector-Parallel Skyline Solver Using Level 3 BLAS.- Exploitation of Data in Memory in the FIDAP Code on the IBM ES/3090.- A Recursive Database Query Language on an Object-Oriented Processor.- A Reverse Communication Interface for “Matrix-free” Preconditioned Iterative Solvers.- Knowledge Modeling and Model-Based Problem Solving Towards a Multi-Use Engineering Knowledge Base.- Empirical Results of a Hybrid Monte Carlo Method for the Solution of Poisson’s Equation.- Section 4: Applications in Fluid Flow.- Implementation and Application of the Multiblock NSFLEX Navier-Stokes Solver.- A Comparison of Differential Systems and Numerical Methods for the Computation of Smooth Oceanographic Flows.- Study of Incompressible Flow with 3D Finite Elements.- Preconditioning Techniques for the Numerical Solution of the Stokes Problem.- Prediction of Swirling Flow in a Corrugated Channel.- On the NumericalSimulation of Shock Waves in an Annular Crevice and its Implementation on the IBM ES/3090 with Vector Facility.- High Speed Laminar Flows Over Cavities.- Efficient Implementation of CG-type Algorithms for STAR-CD Flow Solver.- Analysis of the Residual Optimization Potential and Runtime Analysis of the GW code on SNI Supercomputers.- A Comparison of Two Algorithms Vectorized to Solve Transient, Convective Heat Transfer on Supercomputers.- Symmetric Versus Non-Symmetric Matrix Techniques: Implementation of Two Galerkin-FE Approaches for the Advection-Dispersion Equation.- Numerical Simulation of Transient Response for Room Acoustic Design - Proposition of the Phase Element Integration Method (PEIM).- Simulation of Nonlinear Contaminant Transport in Groundwater by a Higher Order Godunov-Mixed Finite Element Method.- Time-Parallel Multigrid Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations.- A Finite Element Formulation for Nonlinear Wave Propagation with Application to Cavitation.- Section 5: Applications in Structural Mechanics.- Supercomputers in Materials Science.- Supercomputer Applications in the Civil Engineering Field.- Dynamic Finite Element Analysis of Viscoelastically Damped Composite Structures.- Thickness-Shear Mode Shapes and Mass-Frequency Influence Surface of a Circular and Electroded At-Cut Quartz Resonator.- Optimization of Boundary Elements Performance on Supercomputers.- Supercomputer Application in Inelastic Stability of 22-Story Steel Pino-Suarez Complex.- Authors’ Index.