TY - GEN
T1 - Parallel numerical tool for the heat conduction problem in three-dimensional packed spheres
AU - Teruel, Federico E.
AU - Uddin, Rizwan
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - A 3D parallel numerical tool developed to simulate heat conduction between packed spheres is presented, validated and compared with its serial version. This tool allows computing heat transfer in any arrangement of spheres in contact and under different boundary conditions. The parallel version is simple to implement as different spheres are handled by different processors. Additionally, a special treatment is proposed to deal with the heat transferred through the contacts between spheres to avoid internal iterations at each time step. For a particular two-dimensional arrangement of spheres, where each sphere has at most three contacts, the parallel version yields an efficiency of 50%.
AB - A 3D parallel numerical tool developed to simulate heat conduction between packed spheres is presented, validated and compared with its serial version. This tool allows computing heat transfer in any arrangement of spheres in contact and under different boundary conditions. The parallel version is simple to implement as different spheres are handled by different processors. Additionally, a special treatment is proposed to deal with the heat transferred through the contacts between spheres to avoid internal iterations at each time step. For a particular two-dimensional arrangement of spheres, where each sphere has at most three contacts, the parallel version yields an efficiency of 50%.
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U2 - 10.1109/INREC.2010.5462566
DO - 10.1109/INREC.2010.5462566
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77953235875
SN - 9781424452149
T3 - 2010 1st International Nuclear and Renewable Energy Conference, INREC'10
BT - 2010 1st International Nuclear and Renewable Energy Conference, INREC'10
T2 - 2010 1st International Nuclear and Renewable Energy 2010 1st International Nuclear and Renewable Energy Conference, INREC'10
Y2 - 21 March 2010 through 24 March 2010
ER -