SoftwareX (Jan 2020)

nsCouette – A high-performance code for direct numerical simulations of turbulent Taylor–Couette flow

  • Jose Manuel López,
  • Daniel Feldmann,
  • Markus Rampp,
  • Alberto Vela-Martín,
  • Liang Shi,
  • Marc Avila

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11

Abstract

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We present nsCouette, a highly scalable software tool to solve the Navier–Stokes equations for incompressible fluid flow between differentially heated and independently rotating, concentric cylinders. It is based on a pseudospectral spatial discretization and dynamic time-stepping. It is implemented in modern Fortran with a hybrid MPI-OpenMP parallelization scheme and thus designed to compute turbulent flows at high Reynolds and Rayleigh numbers. An additional GPU implementation (C-CUDA) for intermediate problem sizes and a version for pipe flow (nsPipe) are also provided.

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