FILMPAR: A parallel algorithm designed for the efficient and accurate computation of thin film flow on functional surfaces containing micro-structure

Published: 1 December 2009| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/964t3zxnkv.1
Contributors:
Y.C. Lee, H.M. Thompson, P.H. Gaskell

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Abstract FILMPAR is a highly efficient and portable parallel multigrid algorithm for solving a discretised form of the lubrication approximation to three-dimensional, gravity-driven, continuous thin film free-surface flow over substrates containing micro-scale topography. While generally applicable to problems involving heterogeneous and distributed features, for illustrative purposes the algorithm is benchmarked on a distributed memory IBM BlueGene/P computing platform for the case of flow over a sin... Title of program: FILMPAR Catalogue Id: AEEL_v1_0 Nature of problem Thin film flows over functional substrates containing well-defined single and complex topographical features are of enormous significance, having a wide variety of engineering, industrial and physical applications. However, despite recent modelling advances, the accurate numerical solution of the equations governing such problems is still at a relatively early stage. Indeed, recent studies employing a simplifying long-wave approximation have shown that highly efficient numerical methods are nece ... Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data AEEL_v1_0; FILMPAR; 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.06.012 This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2019)

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Computational Physics, Fluid Dynamics, Gas

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