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High Performance Flow Simulations on Graphics Processing Units

Speaker(s): 
Wangda Zuo
Date: 
June 17, 2010 - 12:00pm
Location: 
90-3122
Seminar Host/Point of Contact: 
Michael Wetter

Building design and operation often requires real-time or faster-than-real-time simulations for detailed information on air distributions. However, none of the current flow simulation techniques can satisfy this requirement. To solve this problem, a Fast Fluid Dynamics (FFD) model has been developed. The FFD can solve Navier-Stokes equations at a speed of 50 times faster than Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). In addition, the computing speed of the FFD program has been further enhanced up to 30 times by executing in parallel on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) instead of a Central Processing Unit (CPU). As a whole, the FFD on a GPU can be 1500 times faster than the CFD on a CPU.

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