biofilm_simulation
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Principal Contact Person and Organization (including e-mail address):
Hermann Eberl
TU Delft, The Netherlands
Dept. Biochemical Engineering.
h.j.eberl@stm.tudelft.nl
Brief Description of Application:
3D Steady state fluid flow and mass transfer and consumption in biofilms:
Navier-Stokes solvers for highly irregular geometries (low Reynolds numbers):
(+) Lattice Boltzmann Method (D3Q15)
(+) Finite Differences (artificial compressibility, explicit scheme)
semilinear convection-diffusion/diffusion-reaction equation for mass transfer and consumption
(+) discretization: combined HOC/CDS finite difference
solver: Newton method with BiCGTAB for linear (Jacobian) subsystem
Number of Lines of Code: n.a. (several programs)
Target Platforms and HPF Compilers Used:
Coding Styles (data decompositions, computational methods):
(+) regular structured grid
(+) block distributions
Performance Information, if Available (including any possible comparisons to MPI and/or OpenMP):
very good parallel speedup (but only next neighbor problems)