Analysis of Natural Convection with Cellular Automaton Method.
Masaoki KOBAYASHI, Ryoichi Takahashi · TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Series B · 1991
The cellular automaton method has been intensively applied computational fluid dynamics because of its advantages of representing the statistical mechanical property of fluid flow on massive parallel computers. The present paper focuses on describing the thermally driven phenomena by means of using the multiparticle model and on demonstsrating the Benard-convection problem as a numerical experiment. It also aims at examining the vectorized and parallelized algorithm for the mini-supercomputers to calculate the processes of collisions and translations of a large number of particles in the thermally driven flow.