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Parallel Computing

Volume 19, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 23-32
Parallel Computing

Multigrid efficiency for complex flow simulations on distributed memory machines

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Abstract

This paper investigates the extent to which a combined parallel and numerical efficiency can be maintained for the multigrid solution of problems on complex domains, using the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on block-structured grids as a representative and non-trivial example. Algorithmic variants are introduced, which avoid a severe degradation of the convergence behaviour as the number of processors employed is increased. Numerical experiments are presented together with efficiency results for the Intel iPSC/860.

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