A parallelized ENO procedure for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulence (Q1375899)

A finite-difference based ENO (essentially nonoscillatory) procedure has been chosen for the direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulence. The implementation of the ENO scheme has been modified to admit scalar conservation equations and to run on the iPSC/860 Paragon parallel supercomputer. Some of the attractive features of our algorithm include: 1) minimum communication whereby a processor only communicates with two neighbors; 2) almost one hundred percent load balancing; 3) a checker-board approach to solve the Poisson equation reduces communication by a factor of approximately 2, and, 4) obtaining turbulence statistics is based on a `global collect' approach.