Manifold: Solution with fine mesh, Re = 7000
 Turnaround duct: Solution with fine mesh, Re = 500  
Manifold, coarse mesh Turnaround duct, coarse mesh
The Solution of Large Fluid Flow Models in ADINA We have accomplished major new exciting developments in fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis capabilities. These developments include more effective FCBI fluid flow elements and a more efficient algebraic multi-grid (AMG) solver. These together significantly decrease the solution times and use of memory. We will show many examples demonstrating these major improvements in the forthcoming ADINA News. In the present News we show two examples of 3-D fluid-flow problems that were solved with increasingly finer mesh densities using the new AMG solver and the new FCBI elements. The manifold problem was analyzed with a fully unstructured mesh of tetrahedral elements, while the turnaround duct problem was analyzed using brick elements. For both problems a SINGLE processor (900 MHz) with double precision was used. For the manifold problem we solved about 12 million degrees of freedom in 21 hours, using 2.9 GB of memory. For the turnaround duct we solved about 9.3 million degrees of freedom in 20 hours, using 3.2 GB of memory, see below. Note that the solution times and memory use increase about linearly with the number of equations considered --- which is an important result! Of course, these solution times will be reduced on multi-processor machines, and will depend on the number of processors used. We are now finalizing the parallel-processing of the algorithms and will show results in forthcoming News. Also, we are exploring the use of single precision to decrease the amount of memory used. An important point is that the new fluid flow capabilities can be used in FSI analyses and enable the solution of much more complex problems than could so far be considered. 
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Manifold: Solution with fine mesh, Re = 7000
Turnaround duct: Solution with fine mesh, Re = 500
Manifold, coarse mesh Turnaround duct, coarse mesh
The Solution of Large Fluid Flow Models in ADINA
We have accomplished major new exciting developments in fluid flow and fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis capabilities. These developments include more effective FCBI fluid flow elements and a more efficient algebraic multi-grid (AMG) solver. These together significantly decrease the solution times and use of memory. We will show many examples demonstrating these major improvements in the forthcoming ADINA News.
In the present News we show two examples of 3-D fluid-flow problems that were solved with increasingly finer mesh densities using the new AMG solver and the new FCBI elements. The manifold problem was analyzed with a fully unstructured mesh of tetrahedral elements, while the turnaround duct problem was analyzed using brick elements. For both problems a SINGLE processor (900 MHz) with double precision was used.
For the manifold problem we solved about 12 million degrees of freedom in 21 hours, using 2.9 GB of memory.
For the turnaround duct we solved about 9.3 million degrees of freedom in 20 hours, using 3.2 GB of memory, see below. Note that the solution times and memory use increase about linearly with the number of equations considered --- which is an important result!
Of course, these solution times will be reduced on multi-processor machines, and will depend on the number of processors used. We are now finalizing the parallel-processing of the algorithms and will show results in forthcoming News. Also, we are exploring the use of single precision to decrease the amount of memory used.
An important point is that the new fluid flow capabilities can be used in FSI analyses and enable the solution of much more complex problems than could so far be considered.