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Front tracking: A parallelized approach for internal boundaries and interfaces

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Internal boundaries and interfaces are an important part of many fluid and solid modeling problems. Front Tracking contains a general interface framework, closely related to the non-manifold geometry used in CAD solid modeling packages, to support numerical simulation of such fluid problems. It can thus be considered to be a systematic application of the ideas of computational geometry to computational fluid dynamics. It is based on the principle that finite differences behave best when applied to differentiable functions, and that weak derivatives of nondifferentiable functions can be replaced by regularized expressions such as jump conditions. Front Tracking offers superior resolution for fluid problems with important discontinuities and interfaces, and in some cases, it has provided the unique method to obtain correct answers. Here we present Computer Science issues which have contributed to the success of Front Tracking: software design and organization — modularity, data structures and data hiding.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplied Parallel Computing
Subtitle of host publicationComputations in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Science - 2nd International Workshop, PARA 1995, Proceedings
EditorsJack Dongarra, Kaj Madsen, Jerzy Wasniewśki
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages257-266
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540609024, 9783540609025
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996
Event2nd International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing in Computations in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Science, PARA 1995 - Lyngby, Denmark
Duration: Aug 21 1995Aug 24 1995

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1041
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2nd International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing in Computations in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Science, PARA 1995
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityLyngby
Period08/21/9508/24/95

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