A LATTICE-BOLTZMANN SOLVER FOR 3D FLUID SIMULATION ON GPU

P RINALDI; E DARI; M VENERE; A CLAUSSE

SIMULATION MODELLING PRACTICE AND THEORY

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2012 vol. 25 p. 163 - 181

1569-190X

A three-dimensional Lattice-Boltzmann fluid model with nineteen discrete velocities was implemented using NVIDIA Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) programing language ‘‘Compute Unified Device Architecture’’ (CUDA). Previous LBM GPU implementations required two steps to maximize memory bandwidth due to memory access restrictions of earlier versions of CUDA toolkit and hardware capabilities. In this work, a new approach based on single-step algorithm with a reversed collision–propagation scheme is developed to maximize GPU memory bandwidth, taking advantage of the newer versions of CUDA programming model and newer NVIDIA Graphic Cards. The code was tested on the numerical calculation of lid driven cubic cavity flow at Reynolds number 100 and 1000 showing greatprecision and stability. Simulations running on low cost GPU cards  an calculate 400 cell updates per second with more than 65% hardware bandwidth.