HIERARCHICAL DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION WITH PARALLEL MESH REFINEMENT FOR BILLIONS-OF-DOF SCALE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSES
Kohei Murotani, Shin-ichiro Sugimoto, Hiroshi Kawai, Shinobu Yoshimura · International Journal of Computational Methods · 2013
This paper describes a parallel fast generation method of large-scale meshes for a hierarchical domain decomposition method implemented in the open source parallel finite element software ADVENTURE. Since large-scale meshes need to be generated in order to perform various analyses in Japan's Petaflops Supercomputer, nicknamed the "K computer", a mesh refinement function and a communication table generation function without communication are newly developed and implemented for the hierarchical domain decomposition tool named ADVENTURE_Metis. The developed new version is named ADVENTURE_Metis Ver.2. Since a generation cost of a communication table for sending and receiving data among computational nodes becomes so expensive for the refined large-scale mesh, the present authors have newly developed a parallel algorithm such that the communication tables of vertices, edges and faces are updated each other during mesh refinement after the initial communication tables of vertices, edges and faces are generated for an initial mesh. As a result, the generation of a refined mesh model over billions degrees of freedom (DOFs) from an initial medium-size mesh model of about a million DOFs can be performed in a parallel computer in a short time.