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April 16, 2008
By DE Editors
Flow Science, Inc. (Santa Fe, NM) announced a new release of the distributed memory version of its FLOW-3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, FLOW-3D/MP v3.0.
It provides users with more efficient execution and faster simulations while continuing to deliver the same accurate results that users are accustomed to with FLOW-3D. This new, robust version for clusters gives engineers shorter design cycles for simulating real-world manufacturing processes involving large flow domains with complex flow phenomena.
FLOW-3D/MP v3.0 has undergone rigorous testing. Efficiencies ranging from 50 percent to nearly 90 percent on a variety of problem types have been obtained on eight processors. Scaling has been demonstrated on up to 16 processors. Runtime improvements on eight processors range from 7X speed-up in an ideal case to 4X on a challenging high-speed filling case.
FLOW-3D/MP v3.0 has the same capabilities as the serial 9.2.1 version of FLOW-3D. The MP version includes all the physical models of the serial version, including FLOW-3D’s unique General Moving Objects Collision Model that allows moving objects to interact with fluids and other solid objects in a realistic fashion, and faster execution through the use of Unstructured Memory Allocation and Locally Implicit Advection. A complete list of the features added in FLOW-3D version 9.2.1 can be found at Flow Science.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
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