Direct numerical simulation and large eddy simulation on a turbulent wall-bounded flow using lattice Boltzmann method and multiple GPUs (Q1719056)

Summary: Direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large eddy simulation (LES) were performed on the wall-bounded flow at \(\text{Re}_\tau = 180\) using lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and multiple GPUs (Graphic Processing Units). In the DNS, 8 K20M GPUs were adopted. The maximum number of meshes is \(6.7 \times 10^7\), which results in the nondimensional mesh size of \(\Delta^+ = 1.41\) for the whole solution domain. It took 24 hours for GPU-LBM solver to simulate \(3 \times 10^6\) LBM steps. The aspect ratio of resolution domain was tested to obtain accurate results for DNS. As a result, both the mean velocity and turbulent variables, such as Reynolds stress and velocity fluctuations, perfectly agree with the results of \textit{J. Kim} et al. [J. Fluid Mech. 177, 133--166 (1987; Zbl 0616.76071)] when the aspect ratios in streamwise and spanwise directions are 8 and 2, respectively. As for the LES, the local grid refinement technique was tested and then used. Using \(1.76 \times 10^6\) grids and Smagorinsky constant \((C_s) = 0.13\), good results were obtained. The ability and validity of LBM on simulating turbulent flow were verified.