Applications of Supercomputers in Engineering II

Section 1: Parallel Processing.- Multi Block Flow Solvers for Use on Parallel Computers.- Difficulties in Parallelising Efficient Sequential Codes.- Mixed Parallelism for Single Alternating Group Explicit Method.- The Parallel Processing Concept on the Siemens Nixdorf S Series and its Use in Engineering Applications.- Parallelism in the Boundary Element Method: fine grain and course grain.- Tds2gks: Breaking the TDS Text Barrier.- Operating System Support for a Parallel Cellular System.- Section 2: Visualization and Graphics.- Opening a Window on the Simulation of a Total Artificial Heart.- Modelling and Visualization of Impact Dynamic Processes.- Crosshole Tomography Animation in X Windows with Convex-2/IBM RS 6000 Client-Server Display Connection.- Section 3: Performance.- A Critical Discussion of Supercomputer Architectures for Engineering Applications.- A High Performance Vector-Parallel Skyline Solver Using Level 3 BLAS.- Exploitation of Data in Memory in the FIDAP Code on the IBM ES/3090.- A Recursive Database Query Language on an Object-Oriented Processor.- A Reverse Communication Interface for “Matrix-free” Preconditioned Iterative Solvers.- Knowledge Modeling and Model-Based Problem Solving Towards a Multi-Use Engineering Knowledge Base.- Empirical Results of a Hybrid Monte Carlo Method for the Solution of Poisson’s Equation.- Section 4: Applications in Fluid Flow.- Implementation and Application of the Multiblock NSFLEX Navier-Stokes Solver.- A Comparison of Differential Systems and Numerical Methods for the Computation of Smooth Oceanographic Flows.- Study of Incompressible Flow with 3D Finite Elements.- Preconditioning Techniques for the Numerical Solution of the Stokes Problem.- Prediction of Swirling Flow in a Corrugated Channel.- On the NumericalSimulation of Shock Waves in an Annular Crevice and its Implementation on the IBM ES/3090 with Vector Facility.- High Speed Laminar Flows Over Cavities.- Efficient Implementation of CG-type Algorithms for STAR-CD Flow Solver.- Analysis of the Residual Optimization Potential and Runtime Analysis of the GW code on SNI Supercomputers.- A Comparison of Two Algorithms Vectorized to Solve Transient, Convective Heat Transfer on Supercomputers.- Symmetric Versus Non-Symmetric Matrix Techniques: Implementation of Two Galerkin-FE Approaches for the Advection-Dispersion Equation.- Numerical Simulation of Transient Response for Room Acoustic Design - Proposition of the Phase Element Integration Method (PEIM).- Simulation of Nonlinear Contaminant Transport in Groundwater by a Higher Order Godunov-Mixed Finite Element Method.- Time-Parallel Multigrid Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations.- A Finite Element Formulation for Nonlinear Wave Propagation with Application to Cavitation.- Section 5: Applications in Structural Mechanics.- Supercomputers in Materials Science.- Supercomputer Applications in the Civil Engineering Field.- Dynamic Finite Element Analysis of Viscoelastically Damped Composite Structures.- Thickness-Shear Mode Shapes and Mass-Frequency Influence Surface of a Circular and Electroded At-Cut Quartz Resonator.- Optimization of Boundary Elements Performance on Supercomputers.- Supercomputer Application in Inelastic Stability of 22-Story Steel Pino-Suarez Complex.- Authors’ Index.