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This paper presents a distributed memory parallel implementation of a three dimensional stabilized finite element solver for industrial mold-filling problems using the MPI standard library. These problems present unusual challenges for both the physical modeling and parallelization. Numerical methods and algorithms are proposed for parallel system generation, assembly and linear system solve. Results show that the stabilized formulation is accurate, efficient and leads to linear systems that can be solved very efficiently using simple BiCGStab solver with local ILU(0) preconditioner. Results also show that the proposed approach and data structure are reasonably efficient up to 16 CPUs.
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Audet, M., Hétu, JF., Ilincahetu, F., Bramley, R. (2002). Parallel Finite Element Simulation of 3D Mold-Filling Problems. In: Pollard, A., Mewhort, D.J.K., Weaver, D.F. (eds) High Performance Computing Systems and Applications. The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 541. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47015-2_53
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