Location:
LT2, Hudson Beare Building
Date:
TPLS Mini-Symposium and TPLS Version 2 Opensource Launch
Including Keynote by Professor Christian Ruyer-Quil, Université de Savoie - Chambéry
Venue - LT2, Hudson Beare
All of you are cordially invited to the second open source release of the TPLS flow solver. The full programme for the day is indicated below.
TPLS is an ultra-high resolution 3D two-phase flow solver, freely available as open source. It has already been used to understand flows in several engineering applications including two-phase flows in channels, droplet evaporation and vertical counter-current flows in carbon-capture equipment. You might recollect that the first version was released around two years ago. Ever since the first launch, the solver has garnered several users in academia and industry, clocking 244 downloads to date. Highlights of the second version include:
- The unique diffuse-interface method (Ding et al, J. Comp. Phys, 226 (2), 2078–2095) as a second choice for interface-tracking. The diffuse-interface method is particularly useful for simulating flows with contact-lines.
- Choice of two interface tracking methods - the Level-Set Method and the Diffuse-Interface method.
- Parallel I/O - resulting in reduced output file size and contributing to speed-up.
- Improvised parallel performance - further optmised solvers.
- Highly parallelisable using mixed OpenMP/MPI architecture
- Optimised on ARCHER (> 3072 Cores);
- Fortran coding with PETSc subroutines and parallel-NETCDF I/O
TPLS has been developed by Lennon Ó Náraigh, Dr Prashant Valluri, Dr Toni Collis, Dr David Scott, Iain Bethune and Prof Peter Spelt under the aegis of several ARCHER (previously HECToR) computer time grants and funding from EPSRC and the eCSE programme. Further information on the contributing developers and funding programmes can be found in the further information section below.
(Fig on right) Pressure disturbances and streamlines in a counter-current gas-liquid flow during the so-called loading point. 2013 ChemEngDay UK Best Poster Prize. Mr. Patrick Schmidt, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh
Full Programme
- 13:00–13:05 - Welcome (Prash Valluri, Engineering)
- 13:05–13:15 - Brief intro about TPLS (Lennon Ó Náraigh, Maths @ UC Dublin)
- 13:15–14:15 - Keynote Seminar (Professor Christian Ruyer-Quil, Université de Savoie - Chambéry)
- 14:20-14:35 – TPLS Launch (Iain Bethune, EPCC)
- 14:40–14:50 – Recent most developments in TPLS & Performance Enhancement (Toni Collis, EPCC)
- 14:55–15:05 – Making TPLS easy to use - Contributions from the SSI (Michael Jackson, EPCC/SSI)
- 15:05–15:15 – Coffee Break
TPLS Application-Specific Ongoing and Future developments:
- 15:20–15:30 – Counter-current flows in Chemical Engineering (Patrick Schmidt, Engineering)
- 15:35–15:40 – DNS vs 1D Modelling in Counter-current flows (Gianluca Lavalle, Engineering)
- 15:45–15:55 – Density contrast flows (Lennon, Maths @ UC Dublin)
- 16:00–16:10 – Turbulence in TPLS (James Fannon, Maths @ UC Dublin)
- 16:15–16:25 – Simulating Phase Change in 3D (Prash Valluri, Engineering)
- 16:30–16:35 – Instabilities in binary liquid mixtures (Adam Williams, Engineering)
- 16:40–16:45 – "Recalcitrant" Bubbles (Robson Nazareth, Edinburgh)
- 16:45–16:50 – Closing
Further Information
- Professor Christian Ruyer-Quil
- TPLS, sourceforge.net
- Lennon Ó Náraigh, (School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin)
- Prashant Valluri (School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh)
- Dr Toni Collis, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh
- Dr David Scott, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh
- Iain Bethune, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Peter Spelt (Université de Lyon1, Claude Bernard)
- ARCHER national supercomputing service
- EPSRC
- Embedded CSE (eCSE) support