Comparison of different propagation steps for lattice Boltzmann methods

DOI10.1016/J.CAMWA.2012.05.002MaRDI QIDQ493487zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Markus Wittmann, Thomas Zeiser, Georg Hager, Gerhard Wellein

Publication date 3 September 2015

Published in Computers & Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0922

zbMATH Keywords

performancelattice Boltzmann methodimplementationAA patternpropagation step

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28)

Abstract: Several possibilities exist to implement the propagation step of the lattice Boltzmann method. This paper describes common implementations which are compared according to the number of memory transfer operations they require per lattice node update. A memory bandwidth based performance model is then used to obtain an estimation of the maximal reachable performance on different machines. A subset of the discussed implementations of the propagation step were benchmarked on different Intel and AMD-based compute nodes using the framework of an existing flow solver which is specially adapted to simulate flow in porous media. Finally the estimated performance is compared to the measured one. As expected, the number of memory transfers has a significant impact on performance. Advanced approaches for the propagation step like "AA pattern" or "Esoteric Twist" require more implementation effort but sustain significantly better performance than non-naive straight forward implementations.

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