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* More than 50 participants from academics (CERFACS, CORIA, IMAG, LEGI, UMONS, UVM, VUB), HPC center/experts (GENCI, IDRIS, NVIDIA, HPE) and industry (Safran, Ariane Group). | * More than 50 participants from academics (CERFACS, CORIA, IMAG, LEGI, UMONS, UVM, VUB), HPC center/experts (GENCI, IDRIS, NVIDIA, HPE) and industry (Safran, Ariane Group). | ||
+ | * Web TV: [https://webtv.insa-rouen.fr/channels/#ecfd4 https://webtv.insa-rouen.fr/channels/#ecfd4] | ||
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− | === | + | === Static and dynamic mesh adaptation - G. Balarac, LEGI === |
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− | === Multi-phase flows - V. Moureau, CORIA === | + | ''Participants: G. Balarac and M. Bernard (LEGI), Y. Dubief (Vermont U.), U. Vigny and L. Bricteux (Mons U.), A. Grenouilloux, S. Meynet and P. Bernard (CORIA), R. Mercier and J. Leparoux (Safran Tech), P. Mohanamuraly, G. Staffelbach and N. Odier (CERFACS))'' |
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− | * | + | Mesh adaptation is now an essential procedure to be able toi perform numerical simulations in complex geometries. The aim of mesh adaptation is to be able to define an "objective" mesh allowing the best compromise between accuracy and computational cost, with a reproducibility property, i.e. independent of the user. This project gathered thus six sub-projects related to static and dynamic mesh adaptation, with the main objectives to improve mesh adaptation capabilities of codes (sub-projects 1 and 2), to allow automatic mesh convergence (sub-projects 3 and 4), and to perform dynamic mesh adaptation for specific cases (sub-projects 5 and 6). |
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+ | * '''Sub-project 1: Coupling TreeAdapt / AVBP (P. Mohanamuraly, G. Staffelbach)''' | ||
+ | The main objective of this sub-project was to couple the TreeAdapt library with the AVBP code. TreeAdapt is a library based on the partitioning library TreePart. This allows a hierarchical topology-aware massively parallel, online interface for unstructured mesh adaption. During the workshop the one-way coupling with AVBP has been performed with success and the two-way coupling has been started. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 2: New features in YALES2 (A. Grenouilloux, S. Meynet, M. Bernard, R. Mercier):''' | ||
+ | The main objectives of this sub-project was to develop in YALES2 (i) anisotropic mesh adaptation and (ii) a new partitioning algorithm for a more performant mesh adaptation procedure. To allow anisotropic mesh adaptation a new metric definition based on a tensor at cells has been proposed. The new partitioning has been developed to create halos around bad quality cells and to ensure contiguity. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 3: Criteria based on statistical quantities for static mesh adaptation in LES (G. Balarac, N. Odier, A. Grenouilloux):''' | ||
+ | The main objective of this sub-project was to develop a strategy for automatic mesh convergence based on statistical quantities. The proposed strategy is independent of the flwo case and of the user. It is defined to guarantee that the energy balance of the overall system is independent of the mesh. This strategy combine criteria already proposed by Benard et al. (2015) and Daviller et al. (2017). | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 4: Automated Mesh Convergence plugin re-integration (R. Mercier, J. Leparoux, A. Grenouilloux):''' | ||
+ | The main objective of this sub-project was to integrate the Automated Mesh Convergence (AMC) plugin developed by Safran Tech in YALES2 distribution. This was done with success during the workshop. Moreover, additional criteria were integrated. In particular, the y_plus criterion from Duprat law (A. Grenouilloux PhD) was considered to be able to control cells size in boundary layers. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 5: Dynamic mesh adaptation for DNS/LES of isolated vortices (L. Bricteux, G. Balarac):''' | ||
+ | The main objective of this sub-project was to develop dynamic mesh adaptation strategy for simulation of isolated vortices, and to compare with DNS on static mesh, or with vortex methods. A well docuimented test case of a 2D vortice has been considered. Criteria based on the Palinstrophy have been proposed with success, allowing to perform simulation with dynamic mesh adaptation having the same accuracy as reference methods. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 6: Dynamic mesh adaptation for non-statistically stationary turbulence (U. Vigny, L. Bricteux, Y. Dubief, P. Benard):''' | ||
+ | The main objective of this sub-project was to test dynamic mesh adaptation strategies for flow configurations where statistical quantities are unavailable (conversely to SP3), and where various vortices on a broad range of scales exist (conversely to SP5). Various quantities based on velocity gradient, Q criterion, or passive scalar have been tested. But no unified strategy has been proposed yet. A procedure has been initiated based on a multiobjective genetic algorithm (GA) to identify the optimum dynamic mesh adaptation parameters to minimize computational cost and maximize solution quality. | ||
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+ | === Multi-phase flows - M. Cailler, SAFRAN TECH and V. Moureau, CORIA === | ||
+ | ''Participants: G. Ghigliotti, G. Sahut, S. Pertant (LEGI), Y. Dubief (Vermont U.), S. Mendez (IMAG), R. Mercier, M. Cailler, J. Leparoux (Safran Tech), F. Pecquery, C. Merlin (ARIANE GROUP), V. Moureau, R. Janodet, I. Tsetoglou, P. Benez, Y. Atmani (CORIA)'' | ||
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+ | The modeling of two-phase flows has always been a tedious task because of the differences in thermo-physical properties between the fluids. While two-phase flow numerics based on interface capturing methods have reached maturity for simple thermodynamics, the focus in this field is now on how to deal with multi-physics. Most of the sub-projects of this event have addressed this need. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 1: Thermodynamics for two-phase flows (Y. Atmani, F. Pecquery, M. Cailler, C. Merlin, G. Sahut, S. Pertant, V. Moureau)''' | ||
+ | The main objective of this sub-project was to continue the development in YALES2 of the conservative transport of scalars in two-phase flows using a two-fluid approach. To this aim, new data structures for the "discontinuous scalars" have been derived in order to include various equations of state. The transport of the discontinuous scalars has also been augmented with dilatation. The calculation of surface tension has also been coupled to the scalars in order to start the modeling of Marangoni effects. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 2: Contact angle/triple line (S. Pertant, G. Sahut, G. Ghigliotti, C. Merlin, V. Moureau)''' | ||
+ | In this sub-project, the boiling solver of YALES2 has been coupled to the contact angle model of Wang & Desjardins 2018 based on the accurate conservative levelset framework. The discontinuous scalar transport has also been added to the boiling solver. With these new features, the solver has been used to perform the first simulation of nucleate boiling with dynamic mesh adaptation. The merging of the contact angle model into master has also progressed during the event. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 3: Heat-flux modeling for two-fluid conservative method (Y. Atmani, R. Janodet, M. Cailler, V. Moureau)''' | ||
+ | This sub-project aimed at improving the heat flux model used at the interface in the two-fluid scalar transport framework in YALES2. The work consisted in evaluating the heat flux at the interface instead in the volume. The interface is here materialized by the intersection of the level set iso-surface with the edges of the mesh. The flux is thus evaluated at this intersection and then extended in the volume where it is used to compute the various terms in the transport and reinitialization equations. These developments have been tested successfully for the transport of a 2D water droplet in hot air. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 4: Two-phase flows with polymers (Y. Dubief, S. Mendez, V. Moureau)''' | ||
+ | In this sub-project, the FENE-P model, which as been merged into the master branch of YALES2, has been revisited. While the stiff integration of the non-linear spring, which represents the polymer dynamics, is very efficient and accurate at maximum stretch, the Gibbs phenomenon occurs at zero-stretch and leads to negative values of the trace of the conformation tensor. A new form of the non-linear spring has been derived and tested which prevents the conformation tensor trace to become negative. This new model has been implemented and tested successfully for the flow behind a 2D cylinder. | ||
=== Numerics - G. Lartigue, CORIA === | === Numerics - G. Lartigue, CORIA === | ||
− | ''Participants: Ghislain LARTIGUE and Vincent | + | ''Participants: Ghislain LARTIGUE and Vincent MOUREAU (CORIA), Manuel BERNARD and Guillaume BALARAC (LEGI), Nicolas ODIER and Benjamin MARTIN (CERFACS)'' |
This project gathered four sub-projects related to Numerical Methods. Most of these activities are related to the use of high-order schemes presented in [1] in the context of Finite-Volumes Method. | This project gathered four sub-projects related to Numerical Methods. Most of these activities are related to the use of high-order schemes presented in [1] in the context of Finite-Volumes Method. | ||
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* '''Sub-project 1 (N. Odier, B. Martin, G. Lartigue):''' The main objective of this sub-project was to implement a '''High-Order Finite-Volume method in the Cell-Vertex compressible code AVBP'''. | * '''Sub-project 1 (N. Odier, B. Martin, G. Lartigue):''' The main objective of this sub-project was to implement a '''High-Order Finite-Volume method in the Cell-Vertex compressible code AVBP'''. | ||
− | * '''Sub-project 2 ( | + | |
+ | During the workshop, we focused on the improvement of the convective flux computation. Using the high-order reconstruction of [1], we were able to express the conservative variables as high-order polynomials within each nodal volume. In the case of the Euler equations, a specific scheme is required to compute the correct numerical flux crossing each edge. At the edge, the polynomials obtained for the two neighbouring nodes are not continuous and it hence corresponds to a Riemann problem. Two implementations of the numerical fluxes have been tested: a Roe solver and a Lax-Wendroff scheme. Both schemes achieve third order accuracy on regular and distorted triangular grids. The Roe scheme has also been tested on hybrid triangular/quadrilateral grids, with a resulting second order accuracy in accordance with the high-order reconstruction theory of [1]. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 2 (M. Bernard, G. Balarac, G. Lartigue):''' The main objective of this sub-project was to work on the use of '''High-Order Finite-Volume method to solve the Poisson Equation in the incompressible code YALES2'''. | ||
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+ | In the context of projection method, a special attention needs to be paid to the accuracy of the coupling between pressure and velocity fields. | ||
+ | To achieve this goal, the keystone is to be able to solve efficiently the Poisson problem for the pressure. | ||
+ | During the workshop, we focused on resolution of a generic Poisson problem by use of conjugated gradient algorithm (CJ). | ||
+ | Idea was to use, at each iteration of the CG, the high-order Laplacian operator recently developed on the basis of high-order schemes [1]. | ||
+ | This high-order Laplacian operator shows a better accuracy than the classical one used in YALES2 (SIMPLEX [3]) | ||
+ | However, its usage during conjugated gradient algorithm does not improve the accuracy of the solution of the Poisson problem. | ||
+ | Further investigations are ongoing to evaluate the potential improvement on the correction of the velocity field with the pressure arising from the inversion of the high-order Laplacian operator. | ||
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* '''Sub-project 3 (G. Sahut, G. Balarac, G. Lartigue):''' The main objective of this sub-project was to implement a '''URANS method with a semi-implicit solver in YALES2'''. | * '''Sub-project 3 (G. Sahut, G. Balarac, G. Lartigue):''' The main objective of this sub-project was to implement a '''URANS method with a semi-implicit solver in YALES2'''. | ||
− | * '''Sub-project 4 (G. Lartigue, V. Moureau):''' The main objective of this sub-project was to '''improve the precision and robustness of the Laplacian Operator in YALES2'''. There is two class of operators in YALES2: '''ROBUST''' (a.k.a. PAIR_BASED and IGNORE_SKEWNESS) and '''PRECISE''' (a.k.a. SIMPLEX). It has been shown that for operators with constant coefficients (as in ICS and VDS solvers), the '''PRECISE''' approach is unconditionally stable and must be used in all situations. However, in the SPS solver, the density variations across a pair of vertex can lead to a non-PSD operator. A major achievement of the workshop was to propose an hybrid operator that mixes both operators to achieve both precision and robustness. This operator will be implemented in a near future. | + | |
− | * '''Discussion (All):''' A two-hours discussion on Tuesday afternoon have been dedicated to the analysis of the paper [2]. This paper deals with an optimal way of mixing a robust low-order numerical scheme with high-order scheme. The major interest of this mixing technique is that it preserves the boundedness of the solution with a so-called convex-limiting. This is similar to WENO techniques but it relies on the resolution of the interface Riemann | + | In view of the development of a hybrid URANS/LES solver in YALES2, we have extended a Semi-Implicit method to a Full-Implicit method by adding a second time derivative in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Within the classical projection method [4], an implicit scheme is used to compute the velocity predictor. The resulting linear system is inverted using the BiCGStab(2) linear solver [5]. |
+ | The method has been validated on a periodic flow in a 2D channel with varying section, with a CFL number of 100, where an artificial forcing term is applied in the Navier-Stokes equations to move the fluid back and forth. A comparison with the Explicit method of YALES2 (ICS solver) at CFL = 0.9 shows that this new Full-Implicit method is able to recover the proper velocity profile at high CFL numbers such as CFL = 100. This very important result demonstrates the stability of the Full-Implicit method at high CFL numbers. Furthermore, a comparison with the Semi-Implicit method shows that, while the Semi-Implicit method is able to recover the proper velocity profile at CFL=5, it fails at CFL=100, contrary to the Full-Implicit method. This result shows the benefit of these developments, i.e., the ability to simulate unsteady flows accurately at high CFL numbers. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 4 (G. Lartigue, V. Moureau):''' The main objective of this sub-project was to '''improve the precision and robustness of the Laplacian Operator in YALES2'''. | ||
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+ | There is two class of operators in YALES2: '''ROBUST''' (a.k.a. PAIR_BASED and IGNORE_SKEWNESS) and '''PRECISE''' (a.k.a. SIMPLEX). It has been shown that for operators with constant coefficients (as in ICS and VDS solvers), the '''PRECISE''' approach is unconditionally stable and must be used in all situations. However, in the SPS solver, the density variations across a pair of vertex can lead to a non-PSD operator. A major achievement of the workshop was to propose an hybrid operator that mixes both operators to achieve both precision and robustness. This operator will be implemented in a near future. | ||
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+ | * '''Discussion (All):''' A two-hours discussion on Tuesday afternoon have been dedicated to the analysis of the paper [2]. This paper deals with an optimal way of mixing a robust low-order numerical scheme with high-order scheme. The major interest of this mixing technique is that it preserves the boundedness of the solution with a so-called convex-limiting. This is similar to WENO techniques but it relies on the resolution of the interface Riemann | ||
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+ | [1] Manuel Bernard, Ghislain Lartigue, Guillaume Balarac, Vincent Moureau, Guillaume Puigt. '''A framework to perform high-order deconvolution for finite-volume method on simplicial meshes'''. ''International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids'', Wiley, 2020, 92 (11), pp.1551-1583. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fld.4839] [https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02558814v2] | ||
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+ | [2] Jean-Luc Guermond, Bojan Popov, Ignacio Tomas. '''Invariant domain preserving discretization-independent schemes and convex limiting for hyperbolic systems'''. ''Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg''. 347 (2019) 143–175. [https://www.math.tamu.edu/~guermond/PUBLICATIONS/guermond_popov_tomas_CMAME_2019.pdf] | ||
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+ | [3] Ruben Specogna, Francesco Trevisan. '''A discrete geometric approach to solving time independent Schrödinger equation'''. '''Journal of Computational Physics''' 2011, 1370-1381. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021999110006091] | ||
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+ | [4] Alexandre J. Chorin. '''Numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations'''. ''Math. Comp.'', 22:745–762, 1968. [https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1968-0242392-2] | ||
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+ | [5] Gerard L. G. Sleijpen, Diederick R. Fokkema. '''BiCGStab(ℓ) for linear equations involving unsymmetric matrices with complex spectrum'''. ''Electron. Trans. Numer. Anal.'', 1:11–32, 1993. [http://etna.mcs.kent.edu/volumes/1993-2000/vol1/abstract.php?vol=1&pages=11-32] | ||
=== Turbulent flows - P. Bénard, CORIA === | === Turbulent flows - P. Bénard, CORIA === | ||
− | * turbulence injection | + | |
− | + | ''Participants: P. Bénard, P. Bénez, S. Gremmo, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, S. Meynet, E. Muller, I. Tsetoglou (CORIA), A. Barge, G. Balarac (LEGI), A. Viré (TUDelft), P. Tene Hedje, U. Vigny, L. Bricteux (UMONS)'' | |
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− | * advanced post processing | + | Turbulent flows are involved in many applications. Its understanding and control is a major task to improve system design and efficiency. The intrinsic multi scale characteristics of turbulent flows makes CFD an interesting predictive tool to tackle these challenges. This project gathered four sub-projects related to Turbulent Flows. These activities have direct application in wind turbines flows or heat exchangers. |
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+ | * '''Sub-project 1: Atmospheric turbulent wind modeling via recycling method (E. Muller, S. Meynet, U. Vigny, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, P. Bénard)''' | ||
+ | The main objective of this sub-project was to take advantage of the recently developed recycling boundary condition in the YALES2 library to apply it on atmospheric turbulent flows. Such method can become an alternative to usual synthetic turbulence injection for such application. Some questions were tackled as the obtained mean velocity profile, the velocity fluctuation level and computational cost. The results on a 3D domain showed a promising strategy but further investigations must be performed on the mesh resolution influence and floor wall model coupling. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 2: Model development and validation for vertical axis wind turbine (I. Tsetoglou, P. Tene Hedje, P. Bénez, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, P. Bénard)''' | ||
+ | This sub-project focused on the comparison and validation of 4 vertical axis wind turbine models in the YALES2 code: Actuator Line Method (ALM), Conservative Immersed Boundaries (CIB), rotating resolved geometry via Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian solver (ALE) and resolved geometry in rotating frame (ICS). Each strategy present different advantages, drawbacks, precision and computational cost. The comparison has been performed on a 2D 3-blades (NACA0015) vertical axis wind turbine from Lanzafame et al. (2014). The power coefficient as a function of the turbine rotation speed showed a similar behaviour. More validation will be soon performed. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 3: Multiphysics modelling of wind turbines (S. Gremmo, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, E. Muller, A. Viré)''' | ||
+ | The main goal of this sub-project was to improve the geometrical description of horizontal axis wind turbine via the Actuator Line Method (ALM) in YALES2. A first step consisted in introducing a static tower and nacelle modeling using the same ALM model as the rotor. The implementation was validated on the academic NREL5MW turbine and loads on the tower and nacelle were retrieved, as well as the impact on the turbine wake. The secondary objective targeting the fluid-structure interaction of the tower and nacelle was only initiated during the workshop and will be continued after. | ||
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+ | * '''Sub-project 4: Advanced tools for turbulent flows study (A. Barge, S. Meynet, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, G. Balarac, P. Bénard)''' | ||
+ | This sub-project was initiated to gather, unify and generalize advanced turbulent flow post processing that was started in different teams in YALES2. The main objective concerned budgets equations like Mean Momentum Equation (MME) or Mean Kinetic Equation (MKE). A totally new post processing scalar was implemented into YALES2 so that the structure can be easily modified and adapted to any budget equation. The application of MME and MKE budgets on a smooth channel flow at Re_tau = 180 demonstrated a global good accuracy but needs more investigation near walls. | ||
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=== User experience - R. Mercier, SAFRAN TECH === | === User experience - R. Mercier, SAFRAN TECH === | ||
− | + | ''Participants: Julien Leparoux and Renaud Mercier, Safran Tech, Adrien Grenouilloux and Pierre Bénard, CORIA'' | |
− | * on- | + | |
+ | This project gathered three sub-projects related to user-experience and associated tools. Limited efforts could be made during the week because of an important implication of participants in the Mesh project especially. | ||
+ | * '''Sub-project 1 - Automated regression tests:''' The aim of this sub-project was to improve portability of the first version of y2_non_reg tool, demonstrate on test cases and improve reports and documentation. Nothing was achieved during the week but work will be definitely performed at Safran this year on this subject. | ||
+ | * '''Sub-project 2 - Statistics convergence tool:''' The aim of this sub-project was to demonstrate the interest of a recent tool developed by A. Grenouilloux and identify recommendations on SPS and VDS cases. Improvements of the tool and features evolutions were also targeted. During the week, a python script has been used to test convergence of QC2 criterion on a LEGI test case. The script is about to be pushed on master branch. | ||
+ | * '''Sub-project 3 - An “advisor” tool for the setup of large runs:''' The aim of this sub-project was to develop a tool to answer frequently asked questions on the choices of some YALES2 parameters such as dump partitionning. A first version of the tool was obtained during the week. | ||
=== Fluid structure interaction - S. Mendez, IMAG === | === Fluid structure interaction - S. Mendez, IMAG === | ||
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=== GENCI Hackathon - G. Staffelbach, CERFACS === | === GENCI Hackathon - G. Staffelbach, CERFACS === | ||
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+ | Participants : V. Moureau (CORIA), P. Bégou (LEGI), J. Legaux, G. Staffelbach (CERFACS), L. Stuber, F. Courteille (NVIDIA), T. Braconnier, P.E Bernard (HPE). | ||
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+ | GPU acceleration is the keystone towards exascale computing as evidenced by the top500 where two thirds of the top50 systems are now accelerated. Within this workshop the objective was to reevaluate the performance of both AVBP and YALES2 following their initial port under a contrat de progrés between GENCI and HPE with the support of IDRIS conducted in 2019. Then update as much as possible the codes to todays versions, assess new porting and optimisation possibilities and carry them out when possible. | ||
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+ | '''YALES2''' | ||
+ | The YALES2 solver has evolved immensely since the 2019 port and most of the time was spent merging and updated the code to todays standards. Two updated branches with the current source code have been released idris/openacc_node2pair et idris/openacc_pair2node and profiling and optimisation tools have been tested on CORIA and LEGI platforms. | ||
+ | In parallel, using the CVODE GPU-enabled library to accelerate the chemistry solver in YALES2 was investigated. This proved more complex than anticipated as the library did not build as is with the latest release of the NVIDIA SDK. This issue was promptly solved with the help of NVIDIA. Coupling YALES2 with the accelerated library seems to require more extensive knowledge in OpenACC and CUDA, the team is highly motivated to pursue this train of though and will probably participate to the IDRIS hackathon initiative in May 2020 to continue this effort. | ||
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+ | '''AVBP''' | ||
+ | Efforts to port AVBP to GPU have continued through an second grand challenge on the JEANZAY system targeting the port of a complex industrial type combustion chamber (DGENCC). In preparation for this workshop, the new models required for the DGENCC simulation were ported to GPU and performance analysis was undertaken. A new branch WIP/GC_JZ2 is currently available allowing for the accelerated simulation of this type of workflow. | ||
+ | Under the guidance of NVIDIA and HPE, optimisation venues have been identified: | ||
+ | * removal of extended temporary arrays. | ||
+ | * remplacement of implicit vector assignements. | ||
+ | * Collapsable compute driven loops. | ||
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+ | Integrating this efforts in some of the kernels has yieled a 4.2 acceleration between a full cpu compute node with 40 cascade lake cores and a the accelerated counter part using 4 NVIDIA V100 GPUs. Further more the case has been strong scaling tested up to 1024 gpus with excellent performance. | ||
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+ | == Communications related to ECFD4 == | ||
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+ | === Conferences === | ||
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+ | * S. Gremmo, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, P. Bénard, B. Duboc, G. Lartigue, V. Moureau, Large-Eddy Simulation of Deformable Wind Turbines, Wind Energy Science Conference, 2021 | ||
+ | * U. Vigny, S. Zeoli, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, L. Bricteux, P. Benard, Dynamic mesh adaptation to capture wind turbine wakes during LES simulations, Wind Energy Science Conference, 2021 | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Publications === |
Latest revision as of 13:32, 4 June 2021
Contents
- 1 Description
- 2 News
- 3 Objectives
- 4 Agenda
- 5 Thematics / Mini-workshops
- 5.1 Combustion - B. Cuenot, CERFACS
- 5.2 Static and dynamic mesh adaptation - G. Balarac, LEGI
- 5.3 Multi-phase flows - M. Cailler, SAFRAN TECH and V. Moureau, CORIA
- 5.4 Numerics - G. Lartigue, CORIA
- 5.5 Turbulent flows - P. Bénard, CORIA
- 5.6 User experience - R. Mercier, SAFRAN TECH
- 5.7 Fluid structure interaction - S. Mendez, IMAG
- 5.8 GENCI Hackathon - G. Staffelbach, CERFACS
- 6 Communications related to ECFD4
Description
- Virtual event from 22nd to 26th of March 2021
- Two types of sessions:
- common technical presentations: roadmaps, specific points.
- mini-workshops. Potential workshops are listed below.
- Free of charge
- More than 50 participants from academics (CERFACS, CORIA, IMAG, LEGI, UMONS, UVM, VUB), HPC center/experts (GENCI, IDRIS, NVIDIA, HPE) and industry (Safran, Ariane Group).
- Web TV: https://webtv.insa-rouen.fr/channels/#ecfd4
News
Annoncements on Linkedin
Objectives
- Bring together experts in high-performance computing, applied mathematics and multi-physics CFDs
- Identify the technological barriers of exaflopic CFD via numerical experiments
- Identify industrial needs and challenges in high-performance computing
- Propose action plans to add to the development roadmaps of the AVBP and YALES2 codes
Agenda
Plénière 1
Lundi 22/03/2021 9h00-9h20
Introduction (organisation, agenda semaine, etc.)
V. Moureau (CORIA), G. Balarac (LEGI), C. Piechurski (GENCI)
Plénière 2
Lundi 22/03/2021 9h20-11h20
Présentation des projets du workshop et Présentation des thématiques du hackathon
Responsables de projets
Plénière 3
Lundi 22/03/2021 11h20-12h00
Contrat de Progrès Jean Zay: Véhicule d'accompagnement des utilisateurs au portage des applications sur les nouvelles technologies
P.-F. Lavallée (IDRIS)
Plénière 4
Mardi 23/03/2021 9h00-10h00
Evolution de la programmation GPU – CUDA, OpenACC, Standard Langages (C++, Fortran)
F. Courteille (NVIDIA)
Plénière 5
Mercredi 24/03/2021 13h00-14h00
Le portage applicatif sur GPU de AVBP et Yales 2: Concrêtement comment cela se matérialise?
G. Staffelbach (CERFACS) & V. Moureau (CORIA)
Plénière 6
Jeudi 25/03/2021 9h00-10h00
Approche et démarche pour accompagner le portage d'un code sur GPU NVIDIA
P.-E. Bernard (HPE)
Plénière 7
Vendredi 26/03/2021 9h00-10h00
Roadmaps YALES2 & AVBP
V. Moureau (CORIA) & N. Odier (CERFACS)
Plénière 8
Vendredi 26/03/2021 15h00-17h00
Wrap-up : présentation des résultats et conclusion générale
Responsables de projets + V. Moureau (CORIA)
Thematics / Mini-workshops
These mini-workshops may change and cover more or less topics. This page will be adapted according to your feedback.
Combustion - B. Cuenot, CERFACS
- H2 and alternative fuels combustion
- turbulent combustion modeling
Static and dynamic mesh adaptation - G. Balarac, LEGI
Participants: G. Balarac and M. Bernard (LEGI), Y. Dubief (Vermont U.), U. Vigny and L. Bricteux (Mons U.), A. Grenouilloux, S. Meynet and P. Bernard (CORIA), R. Mercier and J. Leparoux (Safran Tech), P. Mohanamuraly, G. Staffelbach and N. Odier (CERFACS))
Mesh adaptation is now an essential procedure to be able toi perform numerical simulations in complex geometries. The aim of mesh adaptation is to be able to define an "objective" mesh allowing the best compromise between accuracy and computational cost, with a reproducibility property, i.e. independent of the user. This project gathered thus six sub-projects related to static and dynamic mesh adaptation, with the main objectives to improve mesh adaptation capabilities of codes (sub-projects 1 and 2), to allow automatic mesh convergence (sub-projects 3 and 4), and to perform dynamic mesh adaptation for specific cases (sub-projects 5 and 6).
- Sub-project 1: Coupling TreeAdapt / AVBP (P. Mohanamuraly, G. Staffelbach)
The main objective of this sub-project was to couple the TreeAdapt library with the AVBP code. TreeAdapt is a library based on the partitioning library TreePart. This allows a hierarchical topology-aware massively parallel, online interface for unstructured mesh adaption. During the workshop the one-way coupling with AVBP has been performed with success and the two-way coupling has been started.
- Sub-project 2: New features in YALES2 (A. Grenouilloux, S. Meynet, M. Bernard, R. Mercier):
The main objectives of this sub-project was to develop in YALES2 (i) anisotropic mesh adaptation and (ii) a new partitioning algorithm for a more performant mesh adaptation procedure. To allow anisotropic mesh adaptation a new metric definition based on a tensor at cells has been proposed. The new partitioning has been developed to create halos around bad quality cells and to ensure contiguity.
- Sub-project 3: Criteria based on statistical quantities for static mesh adaptation in LES (G. Balarac, N. Odier, A. Grenouilloux):
The main objective of this sub-project was to develop a strategy for automatic mesh convergence based on statistical quantities. The proposed strategy is independent of the flwo case and of the user. It is defined to guarantee that the energy balance of the overall system is independent of the mesh. This strategy combine criteria already proposed by Benard et al. (2015) and Daviller et al. (2017).
- Sub-project 4: Automated Mesh Convergence plugin re-integration (R. Mercier, J. Leparoux, A. Grenouilloux):
The main objective of this sub-project was to integrate the Automated Mesh Convergence (AMC) plugin developed by Safran Tech in YALES2 distribution. This was done with success during the workshop. Moreover, additional criteria were integrated. In particular, the y_plus criterion from Duprat law (A. Grenouilloux PhD) was considered to be able to control cells size in boundary layers.
- Sub-project 5: Dynamic mesh adaptation for DNS/LES of isolated vortices (L. Bricteux, G. Balarac):
The main objective of this sub-project was to develop dynamic mesh adaptation strategy for simulation of isolated vortices, and to compare with DNS on static mesh, or with vortex methods. A well docuimented test case of a 2D vortice has been considered. Criteria based on the Palinstrophy have been proposed with success, allowing to perform simulation with dynamic mesh adaptation having the same accuracy as reference methods.
- Sub-project 6: Dynamic mesh adaptation for non-statistically stationary turbulence (U. Vigny, L. Bricteux, Y. Dubief, P. Benard):
The main objective of this sub-project was to test dynamic mesh adaptation strategies for flow configurations where statistical quantities are unavailable (conversely to SP3), and where various vortices on a broad range of scales exist (conversely to SP5). Various quantities based on velocity gradient, Q criterion, or passive scalar have been tested. But no unified strategy has been proposed yet. A procedure has been initiated based on a multiobjective genetic algorithm (GA) to identify the optimum dynamic mesh adaptation parameters to minimize computational cost and maximize solution quality.
Multi-phase flows - M. Cailler, SAFRAN TECH and V. Moureau, CORIA
Participants: G. Ghigliotti, G. Sahut, S. Pertant (LEGI), Y. Dubief (Vermont U.), S. Mendez (IMAG), R. Mercier, M. Cailler, J. Leparoux (Safran Tech), F. Pecquery, C. Merlin (ARIANE GROUP), V. Moureau, R. Janodet, I. Tsetoglou, P. Benez, Y. Atmani (CORIA)
The modeling of two-phase flows has always been a tedious task because of the differences in thermo-physical properties between the fluids. While two-phase flow numerics based on interface capturing methods have reached maturity for simple thermodynamics, the focus in this field is now on how to deal with multi-physics. Most of the sub-projects of this event have addressed this need.
- Sub-project 1: Thermodynamics for two-phase flows (Y. Atmani, F. Pecquery, M. Cailler, C. Merlin, G. Sahut, S. Pertant, V. Moureau)
The main objective of this sub-project was to continue the development in YALES2 of the conservative transport of scalars in two-phase flows using a two-fluid approach. To this aim, new data structures for the "discontinuous scalars" have been derived in order to include various equations of state. The transport of the discontinuous scalars has also been augmented with dilatation. The calculation of surface tension has also been coupled to the scalars in order to start the modeling of Marangoni effects.
- Sub-project 2: Contact angle/triple line (S. Pertant, G. Sahut, G. Ghigliotti, C. Merlin, V. Moureau)
In this sub-project, the boiling solver of YALES2 has been coupled to the contact angle model of Wang & Desjardins 2018 based on the accurate conservative levelset framework. The discontinuous scalar transport has also been added to the boiling solver. With these new features, the solver has been used to perform the first simulation of nucleate boiling with dynamic mesh adaptation. The merging of the contact angle model into master has also progressed during the event.
- Sub-project 3: Heat-flux modeling for two-fluid conservative method (Y. Atmani, R. Janodet, M. Cailler, V. Moureau)
This sub-project aimed at improving the heat flux model used at the interface in the two-fluid scalar transport framework in YALES2. The work consisted in evaluating the heat flux at the interface instead in the volume. The interface is here materialized by the intersection of the level set iso-surface with the edges of the mesh. The flux is thus evaluated at this intersection and then extended in the volume where it is used to compute the various terms in the transport and reinitialization equations. These developments have been tested successfully for the transport of a 2D water droplet in hot air.
- Sub-project 4: Two-phase flows with polymers (Y. Dubief, S. Mendez, V. Moureau)
In this sub-project, the FENE-P model, which as been merged into the master branch of YALES2, has been revisited. While the stiff integration of the non-linear spring, which represents the polymer dynamics, is very efficient and accurate at maximum stretch, the Gibbs phenomenon occurs at zero-stretch and leads to negative values of the trace of the conformation tensor. A new form of the non-linear spring has been derived and tested which prevents the conformation tensor trace to become negative. This new model has been implemented and tested successfully for the flow behind a 2D cylinder.
Numerics - G. Lartigue, CORIA
Participants: Ghislain LARTIGUE and Vincent MOUREAU (CORIA), Manuel BERNARD and Guillaume BALARAC (LEGI), Nicolas ODIER and Benjamin MARTIN (CERFACS)
This project gathered four sub-projects related to Numerical Methods. Most of these activities are related to the use of high-order schemes presented in [1] in the context of Finite-Volumes Method.
- Sub-project 1 (N. Odier, B. Martin, G. Lartigue): The main objective of this sub-project was to implement a High-Order Finite-Volume method in the Cell-Vertex compressible code AVBP.
During the workshop, we focused on the improvement of the convective flux computation. Using the high-order reconstruction of [1], we were able to express the conservative variables as high-order polynomials within each nodal volume. In the case of the Euler equations, a specific scheme is required to compute the correct numerical flux crossing each edge. At the edge, the polynomials obtained for the two neighbouring nodes are not continuous and it hence corresponds to a Riemann problem. Two implementations of the numerical fluxes have been tested: a Roe solver and a Lax-Wendroff scheme. Both schemes achieve third order accuracy on regular and distorted triangular grids. The Roe scheme has also been tested on hybrid triangular/quadrilateral grids, with a resulting second order accuracy in accordance with the high-order reconstruction theory of [1].
- Sub-project 2 (M. Bernard, G. Balarac, G. Lartigue): The main objective of this sub-project was to work on the use of High-Order Finite-Volume method to solve the Poisson Equation in the incompressible code YALES2.
In the context of projection method, a special attention needs to be paid to the accuracy of the coupling between pressure and velocity fields. To achieve this goal, the keystone is to be able to solve efficiently the Poisson problem for the pressure. During the workshop, we focused on resolution of a generic Poisson problem by use of conjugated gradient algorithm (CJ). Idea was to use, at each iteration of the CG, the high-order Laplacian operator recently developed on the basis of high-order schemes [1]. This high-order Laplacian operator shows a better accuracy than the classical one used in YALES2 (SIMPLEX [3]) However, its usage during conjugated gradient algorithm does not improve the accuracy of the solution of the Poisson problem. Further investigations are ongoing to evaluate the potential improvement on the correction of the velocity field with the pressure arising from the inversion of the high-order Laplacian operator.
- Sub-project 3 (G. Sahut, G. Balarac, G. Lartigue): The main objective of this sub-project was to implement a URANS method with a semi-implicit solver in YALES2.
In view of the development of a hybrid URANS/LES solver in YALES2, we have extended a Semi-Implicit method to a Full-Implicit method by adding a second time derivative in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Within the classical projection method [4], an implicit scheme is used to compute the velocity predictor. The resulting linear system is inverted using the BiCGStab(2) linear solver [5]. The method has been validated on a periodic flow in a 2D channel with varying section, with a CFL number of 100, where an artificial forcing term is applied in the Navier-Stokes equations to move the fluid back and forth. A comparison with the Explicit method of YALES2 (ICS solver) at CFL = 0.9 shows that this new Full-Implicit method is able to recover the proper velocity profile at high CFL numbers such as CFL = 100. This very important result demonstrates the stability of the Full-Implicit method at high CFL numbers. Furthermore, a comparison with the Semi-Implicit method shows that, while the Semi-Implicit method is able to recover the proper velocity profile at CFL=5, it fails at CFL=100, contrary to the Full-Implicit method. This result shows the benefit of these developments, i.e., the ability to simulate unsteady flows accurately at high CFL numbers.
- Sub-project 4 (G. Lartigue, V. Moureau): The main objective of this sub-project was to improve the precision and robustness of the Laplacian Operator in YALES2.
There is two class of operators in YALES2: ROBUST (a.k.a. PAIR_BASED and IGNORE_SKEWNESS) and PRECISE (a.k.a. SIMPLEX). It has been shown that for operators with constant coefficients (as in ICS and VDS solvers), the PRECISE approach is unconditionally stable and must be used in all situations. However, in the SPS solver, the density variations across a pair of vertex can lead to a non-PSD operator. A major achievement of the workshop was to propose an hybrid operator that mixes both operators to achieve both precision and robustness. This operator will be implemented in a near future.
- Discussion (All): A two-hours discussion on Tuesday afternoon have been dedicated to the analysis of the paper [2]. This paper deals with an optimal way of mixing a robust low-order numerical scheme with high-order scheme. The major interest of this mixing technique is that it preserves the boundedness of the solution with a so-called convex-limiting. This is similar to WENO techniques but it relies on the resolution of the interface Riemann
[1] Manuel Bernard, Ghislain Lartigue, Guillaume Balarac, Vincent Moureau, Guillaume Puigt. A framework to perform high-order deconvolution for finite-volume method on simplicial meshes. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Wiley, 2020, 92 (11), pp.1551-1583. [1] [2]
[2] Jean-Luc Guermond, Bojan Popov, Ignacio Tomas. Invariant domain preserving discretization-independent schemes and convex limiting for hyperbolic systems. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 347 (2019) 143–175. [3]
[3] Ruben Specogna, Francesco Trevisan. A discrete geometric approach to solving time independent Schrödinger equation. Journal of Computational Physics 2011, 1370-1381. [4]
[4] Alexandre J. Chorin. Numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. Math. Comp., 22:745–762, 1968. [5]
[5] Gerard L. G. Sleijpen, Diederick R. Fokkema. BiCGStab(ℓ) for linear equations involving unsymmetric matrices with complex spectrum. Electron. Trans. Numer. Anal., 1:11–32, 1993. [6]
Turbulent flows - P. Bénard, CORIA
Participants: P. Bénard, P. Bénez, S. Gremmo, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, S. Meynet, E. Muller, I. Tsetoglou (CORIA), A. Barge, G. Balarac (LEGI), A. Viré (TUDelft), P. Tene Hedje, U. Vigny, L. Bricteux (UMONS)
Turbulent flows are involved in many applications. Its understanding and control is a major task to improve system design and efficiency. The intrinsic multi scale characteristics of turbulent flows makes CFD an interesting predictive tool to tackle these challenges. This project gathered four sub-projects related to Turbulent Flows. These activities have direct application in wind turbines flows or heat exchangers.
- Sub-project 1: Atmospheric turbulent wind modeling via recycling method (E. Muller, S. Meynet, U. Vigny, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, P. Bénard)
The main objective of this sub-project was to take advantage of the recently developed recycling boundary condition in the YALES2 library to apply it on atmospheric turbulent flows. Such method can become an alternative to usual synthetic turbulence injection for such application. Some questions were tackled as the obtained mean velocity profile, the velocity fluctuation level and computational cost. The results on a 3D domain showed a promising strategy but further investigations must be performed on the mesh resolution influence and floor wall model coupling.
- Sub-project 2: Model development and validation for vertical axis wind turbine (I. Tsetoglou, P. Tene Hedje, P. Bénez, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, P. Bénard)
This sub-project focused on the comparison and validation of 4 vertical axis wind turbine models in the YALES2 code: Actuator Line Method (ALM), Conservative Immersed Boundaries (CIB), rotating resolved geometry via Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian solver (ALE) and resolved geometry in rotating frame (ICS). Each strategy present different advantages, drawbacks, precision and computational cost. The comparison has been performed on a 2D 3-blades (NACA0015) vertical axis wind turbine from Lanzafame et al. (2014). The power coefficient as a function of the turbine rotation speed showed a similar behaviour. More validation will be soon performed.
- Sub-project 3: Multiphysics modelling of wind turbines (S. Gremmo, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, E. Muller, A. Viré)
The main goal of this sub-project was to improve the geometrical description of horizontal axis wind turbine via the Actuator Line Method (ALM) in YALES2. A first step consisted in introducing a static tower and nacelle modeling using the same ALM model as the rotor. The implementation was validated on the academic NREL5MW turbine and loads on the tower and nacelle were retrieved, as well as the impact on the turbine wake. The secondary objective targeting the fluid-structure interaction of the tower and nacelle was only initiated during the workshop and will be continued after.
- Sub-project 4: Advanced tools for turbulent flows study (A. Barge, S. Meynet, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, G. Balarac, P. Bénard)
This sub-project was initiated to gather, unify and generalize advanced turbulent flow post processing that was started in different teams in YALES2. The main objective concerned budgets equations like Mean Momentum Equation (MME) or Mean Kinetic Equation (MKE). A totally new post processing scalar was implemented into YALES2 so that the structure can be easily modified and adapted to any budget equation. The application of MME and MKE budgets on a smooth channel flow at Re_tau = 180 demonstrated a global good accuracy but needs more investigation near walls.
User experience - R. Mercier, SAFRAN TECH
Participants: Julien Leparoux and Renaud Mercier, Safran Tech, Adrien Grenouilloux and Pierre Bénard, CORIA
This project gathered three sub-projects related to user-experience and associated tools. Limited efforts could be made during the week because of an important implication of participants in the Mesh project especially.
- Sub-project 1 - Automated regression tests: The aim of this sub-project was to improve portability of the first version of y2_non_reg tool, demonstrate on test cases and improve reports and documentation. Nothing was achieved during the week but work will be definitely performed at Safran this year on this subject.
- Sub-project 2 - Statistics convergence tool: The aim of this sub-project was to demonstrate the interest of a recent tool developed by A. Grenouilloux and identify recommendations on SPS and VDS cases. Improvements of the tool and features evolutions were also targeted. During the week, a python script has been used to test convergence of QC2 criterion on a LEGI test case. The script is about to be pushed on master branch.
- Sub-project 3 - An “advisor” tool for the setup of large runs: The aim of this sub-project was to develop a tool to answer frequently asked questions on the choices of some YALES2 parameters such as dump partitionning. A first version of the tool was obtained during the week.
Fluid structure interaction - S. Mendez, IMAG
Participants: Thomas Fabbri and Guillaume Balarac, LEGI, Barthélémy Thibaud and Simon Mendez, IMAG, Likhitha Ramesh Reddy and Axelle Viré, TU Delft and Pierre Bénard, CORIA
This project gathered three sub-projects related to fluid-structure interactions (FSI). Their common feature was the FSI solver from YALES2, which is based on a partitioned approach. The FSI solver couples an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian solver for predicting the fluid motion in a moving domain (FSI_ALE) and a solver for structural dynamics (FSI_SMS), which are both YALES2 solvers. The FSI solver has been initiated by Thomas Fabbri (LEGI, Grenoble) and the objectives of ECFD4 were to optimize it and generalize its use among several teams, by improving its performances, demonstrating its versatility and adding multiphysics effects. All the projects made interesting progree and will continue over the newt weeks/months.
- Sub-project 1 (Thomas Fabbri and Guillaume Balarac, LEGI): The aim of this sub-project was to decrease the time spent in computing the fluid grid deformation, which is currently the most expensive part of the calculation. The strategy is to solve a deformation field on a coarse mesh and apply it to a fine mesh after interpolation. Many pieces exist in YALES2 related to such a task (using several grids, performing interpolations...), but they are currently not appropriate for this application. The work performed during the workshop consisted in identifying the different subroutines of interest and start coding the method. Many parts of the method are functional and the next step is to properly compbine them and test its efficiency.
- Sub-project 2 (Barthélémy Thibaud and Simon Mendez, IMAG): The aim of this sub-project was to validate the FSI solver in the case of a flexible valve bent by a pulsatile flow. A proper workflow (sequence of runs) has been defined during the week to be able to run this simulation and the first results are extremely promising, with already fair comparisons with the reference results from the literature. This workshop has also contributed in enhacing the experience of the solver at IMAG.
- Sub-project 3 (Likhitha Ramesh Reddy and Axelle Viré, TU Delft and Pierre Bénard, CORIA): The long-term aim of this sub-project is to perform simulations of the flow around floating wind turbines, which constitutes a huge challenge, as it gathers the difficulties of wind tubines flows, two-phase flows, and fluid-structure interactions between a fluid and a solid. During the workshop, the aim was to progress on two aspects: the use of the two-phase flow solver of YALES2, SPS, in a moving domain (coupling SPS and ALE) and the coupling with FSI. Both tasks were tackled: preliminary validation simulations were performed for the SPS-ALE solver, and the strategy to couple the SPS-ALE solver with the FSI has been clearly identified within the group.
- Common work: TU Delft (Sub-project 3) needs to perform FSI without deformation of the structure, so that the coupling with the SMS solver may not be indispensable. Tests were performed to study the ability of the SMS to work in a regime of very stiff material to mimic rigid bodies, and first tests were very convincing. In the future however, it is planned to implement a rigid-body motion solver in YALES2 as an alternative to SMS. This task gathers the four teams of the project and is a clear shared objective of the next months.
- Bugs and cleaning: minor bugs were identified in the FSI solver, mostly related to options rarely used. There were corrected and pushed in the YALES2 gitlab.
- Documentation: the information shared between participants for the use and understanding of the SMS and FSI solvers has been directly gathered in the YALES2 wiki.
GENCI Hackathon - G. Staffelbach, CERFACS
Participants : V. Moureau (CORIA), P. Bégou (LEGI), J. Legaux, G. Staffelbach (CERFACS), L. Stuber, F. Courteille (NVIDIA), T. Braconnier, P.E Bernard (HPE).
GPU acceleration is the keystone towards exascale computing as evidenced by the top500 where two thirds of the top50 systems are now accelerated. Within this workshop the objective was to reevaluate the performance of both AVBP and YALES2 following their initial port under a contrat de progrés between GENCI and HPE with the support of IDRIS conducted in 2019. Then update as much as possible the codes to todays versions, assess new porting and optimisation possibilities and carry them out when possible.
YALES2 The YALES2 solver has evolved immensely since the 2019 port and most of the time was spent merging and updated the code to todays standards. Two updated branches with the current source code have been released idris/openacc_node2pair et idris/openacc_pair2node and profiling and optimisation tools have been tested on CORIA and LEGI platforms. In parallel, using the CVODE GPU-enabled library to accelerate the chemistry solver in YALES2 was investigated. This proved more complex than anticipated as the library did not build as is with the latest release of the NVIDIA SDK. This issue was promptly solved with the help of NVIDIA. Coupling YALES2 with the accelerated library seems to require more extensive knowledge in OpenACC and CUDA, the team is highly motivated to pursue this train of though and will probably participate to the IDRIS hackathon initiative in May 2020 to continue this effort.
AVBP Efforts to port AVBP to GPU have continued through an second grand challenge on the JEANZAY system targeting the port of a complex industrial type combustion chamber (DGENCC). In preparation for this workshop, the new models required for the DGENCC simulation were ported to GPU and performance analysis was undertaken. A new branch WIP/GC_JZ2 is currently available allowing for the accelerated simulation of this type of workflow. Under the guidance of NVIDIA and HPE, optimisation venues have been identified:
- removal of extended temporary arrays.
- remplacement of implicit vector assignements.
- Collapsable compute driven loops.
Integrating this efforts in some of the kernels has yieled a 4.2 acceleration between a full cpu compute node with 40 cascade lake cores and a the accelerated counter part using 4 NVIDIA V100 GPUs. Further more the case has been strong scaling tested up to 1024 gpus with excellent performance.
Conferences
- S. Gremmo, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, P. Bénard, B. Duboc, G. Lartigue, V. Moureau, Large-Eddy Simulation of Deformable Wind Turbines, Wind Energy Science Conference, 2021
- U. Vigny, S. Zeoli, F. Houtin-Mongrolle, L. Bricteux, P. Benard, Dynamic mesh adaptation to capture wind turbine wakes during LES simulations, Wind Energy Science Conference, 2021