ParalleldynamicunstructuredmeshmethodswithapplicationtoLagrangiansimulationofflowswithdeformableboundaries.docVIP

Parallel Dynamic Unstructured Mesh Methods with Application to Lagrangian Simulation of Flows with Deformable Boundaries Omar Ghattas and Ivan Malcevic* Mechanics, Algorithms and Computing Laboratory Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 oghattas@ malcevic@ Abstract We present a new methodology for parallel mesh regeneration for large-scale simulations of problems with dynamic boundaries and deforming domanis. In contrast to the widespread practice of making only incremental changes to the existing mesh, we take a radical approach to dynamic mesh motion by aggressively remeshing in parallel at every time step. The key to our approach is to retain as many of the nodes as possible but replace, in parallel, the element structure with a completely new Delaunay triangulation. Refinement and coarsening of the nodal set are also employed to ensure that nodes are well-spaced according to solution and dynamic geometry-driven criteria. Our current two-dimensional implementation has been applied within the framework of a parallel Lagrangian finite element mesh-based incompressible flow solver. We illustrate the capability of the Lagrangian simulations through a series of model problems involving moving and deformable boundaries, and provide parallel performance results showing high scalability of our code. Introduction The goal of this work is to develop parallel scalable dynamic mesh methods for problems that require widespread and frequent mesh changes. The most prominent such problems are those that involve dynamic boundaries. Examples include fluid-structure interaction, fluid-fluid interaction, phase changes, free surfaces, and shape optimization. This work is a part of the Terascale Algorithms for Optimization of Simulations (TAOS) project at CMU with support from NASA grant NAG-1-2090 and NSF grant ECS 9732301 (under the NSF/Sandia Life Cycle Engineering Program). Computing services on the Pittsb