Abstract
The set of eight nonlinear partial differential equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is used for time dependent simulations of three-dimensional (3D) fluid flow in a magnetic field. A data parallel code is presented, which integrates the MHD equations in cylindrical geometry, combining a semi-implicit time integration with a pseudo-spectral treatment of the poloidal and longitudinal directions. The semi-implicit method is devised to lift the severe CFL-condition imposed by the fastest waves. In the radial direction, we use centered finite differences on a staggered mesh. Together with the semi-implicit method, this leads to tridiagonal systems to be solved for each 2D Fourier mode.
The parallelism is required to fully resolve small-scale dynamics in MHD simulations at affordable CPU costs. It is obtained by performing the 2D FFTs in an embarrassingly parallel way, and by solving the tridiagonal systems using a pipelined elimination algorithm.
We discuss the scalability of the full code for a CM-Fortran implementation.
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Keppens, R., Poedts, S., Meijer, P.M., Goedbloed, J.P. (1997). A data parallel pseudo-spectral semi-implicit magnetohydrodynamics code. In: Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1225. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0031592
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