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Old   April 21, 2011, 10:06
Default The growth of CFD mesh sizes over the years
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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if I could find somewhere
data about the growth of CFD mesh sizes over the years.
I remember for example performing a CFD run with a mesh size of around two hundred thousand cells back in 1997 and I think and was impressed at the time.

Any suggestions about sources of such information?

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Hey,

In my opinion, the mesh size follows the development of computers and supercomputers (vector, parallel). Do you think it follows the Moore law?

For example,
In 2000 I was impressed by the 129^3 mesh points for the DNS of the lid driven cavity with spectral methods (E. Leriche Physics of Fluids V.12 N 6).
10 times more in 3 years.

And In 2002, I was astonish by the Japanese team who compute the DNS using 4096^3 to modelize the Turbulence in a cube.

So I don't think there is a limit for the mesh size but only a question of computation time, size memory and storage.
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Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the reply.
Indeed what you say is right, but
I am actually looking for real typical industrial CFD mesh sizes, how they have grown say since say the mid 90s, or even earlier if possible, upto today.

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This is all I can think of. From ntrs.nasa.gov

" 20 Plus Years of Chimera Grid Development for the Space Shuttle. STS-107, Return to Flight, End of the Program"

http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20100033498
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Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the reply.
Indeed what you say is right, but
I am actually looking for real typical industrial CFD mesh sizes, how they have grown say since say the mid 90s, or even earlier if possible, upto today.

Vangelis

There are mainly two types of CFD calculations - (1) with meshes on regular cartesian meshes with explicit fractional step type treatments. (the 4096x4096x4096) falls into that category, and (2) with SIMPLE type of algorithm that you can use on any type of meshes. This is what being mostly used in industries.

In cartesian types very large meshes are fairly regular, but in SIMPLE type algorithms current state , i guess (might be wrong though) that few billion cells is maximum people have tried.

At the time of writing this message, i am running a calculation with 1.5billion cells and intend to run few with roughly 5 billion cells with SIMPLE type algorithm in coming days.

The 5 billion one might be the biggest SIMPLE type algo's run in todays time.
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Thank you Martin, interesting presentation from NASA.

Arjun, are the 5 billion element simulations that you are planning for an automotive application?
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Thank you Martin, interesting presentation from NASA.

Arjun, are the 5 billion element simulations that you are planning for an automotive application?
that is one of the things.

At the moment though biggest issue is post processing such a large data, i would be busy planning about it. We tried paraview but it seems paraview is not upto the challenge. I never been fan of paraview, after working with it for last few days, my dislike has only increased.
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that is one of the things.

At the moment though biggest issue is post processing such a large data, i would be busy planning about it. We tried paraview but it seems paraview is not upto the challenge. I never been fan of paraview, after working with it for last few days, my dislike has only increased.
I don't want to contradict you but I think Paraview can do such things if you have the right hardware and Paraview rightly configured to it. There is a pricely alternative EnSightDR which can cost I believe around $10K a year.
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I don't want to contradict you but I think Paraview can do such things if you have the right hardware and Paraview rightly configured to it. There is a pricely alternative EnSightDR which can cost I believe around $10K a year.
I know that people have used paraview with larger data set than what i am using. So whats the problem??? The problem is that i have limited resources my each processor does not have more than 4gb available to me. Further each processor writes data separately and hence i can run 1 paraview process for each processor written data. This is the problem, cfd solver takes 3gb for that data and paraview is asking roughly 8-10 gb for same data. This is why i do not like it, they have royally screwed on memory management part.

I know about other alternatives, for the same data set fieldview takes 5 times less memory than paraview. So if fieldview can do it then why not paraview?? This is why i am frustrated with paraview. It is good for small things but it is not cool for big things untill you have unlimited resources.
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I know that people have used paraview with larger data set than what i am using. So whats the problem??? The problem is that i have limited resources my each processor does not have more than 4gb available to me. Further each processor writes data separately and hence i can run 1 paraview process for each processor written data. This is the problem, cfd solver takes 3gb for that data and paraview is asking roughly 8-10 gb for same data. This is why i do not like it, they have royally screwed on memory management part.

I know about other alternatives, for the same data set fieldview takes 5 times less memory than paraview. So if fieldview can do it then why not paraview?? This is why i am frustrated with paraview. It is good for small things but it is not cool for big things untill you have unlimited resources.
It seems you have evaluated ParaView properly, I never thought of this problem becoz-
1. My problem size was smaller (only upto 150 million).
2. I had access to a very large supercomputer for entire CFD cycle so computing resources was never a constraint.

Good to know that FieldView offers a better and more efficient alternative.
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