Performance of parallel-in-time integration for Rayleigh Bénard Convection
arXiv:2001.01609 · doi:10.1007/s00791-020-00332-3
Abstract
Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) is a fundamental problem of fluid dynamics, with many applications to geophysical, astrophysical, and industrial flows. Understanding RBC at parameter regimes of interest requires complex physical or numerical experiments. Numerical simulations require large amounts of computational resources; in order to more efficiently use the large numbers of processors now available in large high performance computing clusters, novel parallelisation strategies are required. To this end, we investigate the performance of the parallel-in-time algorithm Parareal when used in numerical simulations of RBC. We present the first parallel-in-time speedups for RBC simulations at finite Prandtl number. We also investigate the problem of convergence of Parareal with respect to to statistical numerical quantities, such as the Nusselt number, and discuss the importance of reliable online stopping criteria in these cases.
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