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Computational Fluid Dynamics
Several ongoing projects on Navier-Stokes models and Lattice Boltzman methods have shown very large speedups using CUDA-enabled GPUs. This work is highlighted below starting with some charts, followed by links to technical reports. There is also work on weather modeling and ocean modeling using GPUs.
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| Incompressible Navier-Stokes Thibault and Senocak |
Lattice Boltzman Methods Tolke and Krafczyk |
Key CFD ISVs and Applications Using CUDA
| ISV/Application | Supported Features | Expected Speed up* | Release Status |
| Altair AcuSolve | Linear equation solver, multi-GPU | 2x | Released, v1.8a |
| Autodesk Moldflow | Linear equation solver | 1.5x | Released, v2012 |
| FluiDyna Culises for OpenFOAM | Linear equation solvers | 3x Solver | Released, v1.2 |
| Prometech Particleworks | MPS, Particle CFD, multi-GPU | 4x-9x | Released, v2.5 |
| Turbostream Ltd. | Explicit compressible solver, multi-GPU | 19x | Released, v2.0 |
| Vratis SpeedIT eXtreme for OpenFOAM | Linear equation solvers, multi-GPU | 6x Solver | Released, v1.2 |
| FluiDyna LBultra | Lattice-Boltzmann solver, multi-GPU | 20x | Released, v2.0 |
| Vratis ARAEL | Linear equation solvers | 3x Solver | Released, v1.0 |
| ANSYS CFD (FLUENT) | Radiation heat transfer model | 10x | In development, v14.0 |
| ESI CFD-ACE+ | Linear equation solver, multi-GPU | 2x | In development, v2012 |
| Metacomp CFD++ | Linear equation solver | In development | In development, v12 |
| S3D(Sandia NL) | Chemistry kernel | 5x | In development |
| SD++ (Stanford-Jameson) | Explicit compressible solver | 16x | In development |
| FEFLO (GMU-Lohner) | Implicit and explicit solvers | 2x – 10x | In development |
* Expected Speed Up vs a quad-core x64 CPU based system. Speed-ups as per NVIDIA in house testing or application provider documentation.
Other Relevant Software Using CUDA
- OpenCurrent: Open-Source library of CUDA-Accelerated PDE (partial differential equation) Solvers Over Regular Grids
- Sailfish: CFD Solver using the Lattice Boltzman method
- ANDSolver: Solves Euler Equations on Unstructured Meshes of Polyhedrals
- Library of PCG and BIGSTAB Linear Iterative Solvers Linked with OpenFOAM
- Elegant Mathematics: Boltzmann Solver, Conjugate Gradient, GMRES
- Field and Feature Extraction from Unstructured Simulation Data in VSG MeshViz XLM and Avizo Wind (PDF)
- Unstructured Grid Based CFD Solvers using CUDA GPUs (Code is also available)
- A Fast Double Precision CFD Code using CUDA
- 2D & 3D Euler Solvers from Pullan Group
- Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on GPUs by Andreas Klockner
- Lattice-Boltzmann
- Tolke, Krafczyk work on Lattice-Boltzmann, Galerkin approach
- Lattice Boltzmann-based 3D CFD
- Lattice Boltzman for lighting
- 3D LB solver
- Lattice-Boltzman-based PDE solver
- Navier-Stokes
- Finite Element Simulations and Navier-Stokes Solver using GPUs
- Incompressible Navier-Stokes
- Navier-Stokes Stanford University Solver (NSSUS) on CUDA
- Atmospheric Equations using CUDA
- Plasma Turbulence Modeling with CUDA
- Sparse Matrix Linear Solvers : Iterative solvers
- Sparse Matrix Linear Solvers : Direct solvers
- Multigrid Solvers
- Algebraic multi-grid on CUDA GPUs
- Using MG as a Preconditioner and Domain Decomposition with Unstructured Grids
- Flux Computation
- 3D finite difference calculations using CUDA (structured grids)
- A Fast Double Precision CFD Code on CUDA (structured grids)
- Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) Code for Unstructured Codes on GPUs
- Multiblock, Codes
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