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SunwayURANS: 3D full-annulus URANS simulations of transonic axial compressors on Sunway TaihuLight

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Three-dimensional full-annulus Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) simulations play a crucial role in predicting the aerodynamic performance of the transonic axial compressor rotor. In this paper, we report our work, SunwayURANS, which can bring the transonic axial compressor rotor simulation a step closer to practical application. Multi-level parallel techniques are proposed to boost the simulation speed, including a process-level domain decomposition and a process mapping scheme, a thread-level solution to improve pipeline efficiency using DMA and register communication, and a processor-specific vectorization scheme. Aiming to perform the correct and stable simulation, we present a software framework, which includes the pre-processing module, solver module, and IO module. When using 7.2 billion grid points with 450 thousand cores, the simulation achieves 611.53 million grid points to be updated per second and performance of 95.805TFlops. Running in Sunway TaihuLight, experiments show that SunwayURANS does not change the accuracy of the original simulation software, and can be used in the actual simulation.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant number 2016YFB0200902.

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Chen, H., Wang, Z., Xiao, X. et al. SunwayURANS: 3D full-annulus URANS simulations of transonic axial compressors on Sunway TaihuLight. J Supercomput 78, 19167–19187 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04628-8

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