Large Eddy Simulation of Combustion on Massively Parallel Machines
Gabriel Staffelbach (CERFACS)Laurent Gicquel (CERFACS)
Jean Mathieu Senoner (CERFACS)
Thierry Poinsot (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse)
Abstract:
Combustion is the source of eighty percent of the energy produced in the world: it is therefore a topic of major interest in the present context of global warming and decreasing fuel resources. Simulating combustors and especially instability mechanisms in these systems has become a central issue in the combustion community in the last ten years. This can be achieved only on massively parallel computers. This paper presents modern techniques to simulate reacting flows in realistic geometries and shows how parallel computing (typically thousands of processors) has made these simulations possible. The physics of reacting flows are only discussed briefly to concentrate on specific issues linked to massively parallel computing, to the turbulent character of the flow and the effects of rounding errors.
Keywords:
Large Scale Simulations in CS&E (earth, environment, finance, geoscience, engineering, ...), Multiscale and Multiphysics Problems, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computing for Aerospace and Engineering
