A Lattice-Boltzmann solver for 3D fluid simulation on GPU

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• 作者：P.R. Rinaldi^a ; ^{prinaldipablo@gmail.com} ; E.A. Dari^b ; M.J. Vé ; nere^a ; A. Clausse^a
• 关键词：GPGPU ; 3D Lattice-Boltzmann Methods ; CUDA
• 刊名：Simulation Modelling Practice & Theory
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：80_1569190x
• 类别：mt
• 出版时间：June, 2012
• 卷：25
• 期：Complete
• 页码：163-171
• 文件大小：639 K

摘要

A three-dimensional Lattice-Boltzmann fluid model with nineteen discrete velocities was implemented using NVIDIA Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) programing language 鈥淐ompute Unified Device Architecture鈥?(CUDA). Previous LBM GPU implementations required two steps to maximize memory bandwidth due to memory access restrictions of earlier versions of CUDA toolkit and hardware capabilities. In this work, a new approach based on single-step algorithm with a reversed collision-propagation scheme is developed to maximize GPU memory bandwidth, taking advantage of the newer versions of CUDA programming model and newer NVIDIA Graphic Cards. The code was tested on the numerical calculation of lid driven cubic cavity flow at Reynolds number 100 and 1000 showing great precision and stability. Simulations running on low cost GPU cards can calculate 400 cell updates per second with more than 65%hardware bandwidth.