Title: | Massively Parallel Molecular-Continuum Flow Simulation with Error Control and Dynamic Ensemble Handling | Authors: | Jafari, Vahid Wittmer, Niklas Neumann, Philipp |
Language: | eng | Keywords: | dtec.bw | Issue Date: | Jan-2022 | Document Type: | Conference Object | Project: | Makro/Mikro-Simulation des Phasenzerfalls im Transkritischen Bereich Resilience and Dynamic Noise Reduction at Exascale for Multiscale Simulation Coupling |
Page Start: | 52 | Page End: | 60 | Published in (Book): | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series | Conference: | HPCAsia2022: International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region | Abstract: | In coupled molecular-continuum flow simulations, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations exhibit thermal fluctuations. Finding a way to minimize the impact of these fluctuations on the CFD solver, e.g. in terms of stability, and to control the corresponding statistical error plays a key role in order to obtain reliable results. In this paper, statistical error analysis is employed for MD simulations to determine the statistical error in flow velocities and the number of MD data samples to bound this error. The corresponding error estimator is augmented by a dynamic ensemble handling approach, which allows to couple a variable number of MD simulation instances to a single CFD solver. The ensemble members can be simulated independently from each other over separate coupling time intervals, enabling a high level of (MPI-based) parallelism. Adding or removing MD simulations to/from the ensemble allows to regulate the error and keep it under a prescribed threshold. All functionality is implemented in the massively parallel macro-micro-coupling tool (MaMiCo). We validate our approach by coupled molecular-continuum Couette flow simulation for liquid argon and provide scalability tests on up to 131.072 cores. The computational overhead for handling the dynamic MD ensemble is found to be rather negligible. |
Organization Units (connected with the publication): | High Performance Computing DTEC.bw |
ISBN: | 9781450384988 | Publisher DOI: | 10.1145/3492805.3492812 |
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