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• Moin & Mahesh (Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 1998): A powerful tool for
research: physical understanding and model testing/development
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• Our database:
- Taylor-scale Reynolds numbers from 38 to 700
- grid resolution 643 to 20483, in most cases
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~700 (20483)
“Log-normal”
fits for B and F • log( ) often modeled as having a
normal (Gaussian) distribution
Passive Scalars
Diffusive contaminant/material that does not affect the flow
e.g. small temperature differences, low species concentrations
• Scalar fluctuation field evolves by
• At high Re:
~700 (20483)
• Intermediate wavenumbers for
Sc = 1 Sc=O (1) or less: extension to K41 by
0.67 Obukhov 1949 and Corrsin 1951
circles: Sc=1/8
triangles: Sc=1
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A Matter of Statistics
1.2
TKE 1.0
• Turbulence statistics
0.8
have a natural
1.2 variability in time
1.0
• Some quantities are more
0.8
sensitive: e.g. fewer
1.2
samples of large scales in
1.0 a finite domain
0.8
1.2 • Accurate sampling is
1.0 important: e.g. at least 5
0.8
TE; needs longer run
0 1.0 2.0 3.0 for high-quality results
t / TE
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• MPI_ALLTOALL
communication used to swap y
between x-y and x-z slabs z
• Various improvements
suggested by consultants x
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Performance on Seaborg
Problem size 1024 2048
No. processors 256 2048
CPU/step/proc 63 secs 84 secs
Performance per-proc. 178 Mflop/s 135 Mflop/s
Aggregate 182 Gflop/s 247 Gflop/s
Per-proc peak memory 282 MB 565 MB
Size of restart dataset 20 GB 160 GB