Scalability and performance of data-parallel pressure-based multigrid methods for viscous flows (Q1913815)

A full-approximation storage multigrid method for solving the steady-state two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on staggered grids has been implemented in Fortran on the CM-5, using the array aliasing feature in CM-Fortran to avoid declaring fine-grid-sized arrays on all levels while still allowing a variable number of grid levels. The convergence rate characteristics of the pressure-correction multigrid method are investigated in a Re=5000 lid-driven cavity flow and a Re=300 symmetric backward-facing step flow, using either a defect-correction scheme or a second-order upwind scheme.