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We present the numerical simulation of stationary, laminar diffusion flames with detailed chemical reaction mechanism on distributed memory parallel computers. The problem consists in solving the conservation equations of total mass, momentum, energy and species masses for a compressible fluid. For the numerical solution we suggest a hybrid algorithm which is a combination of data and domain decomposition techniques. This approach has been tested on a variety of parallel computers ranging from moderately to massively parallel and has proven uniformly high parallel efficiencies. Results for Parsytec GC/PP, a Cray T3D and an IBM-SP2 computer are presented. Calculations for a model bunsen burner with axisymmetric configuration are presented and discussed.
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Bader, G., Gehrke, E. (1996). Simulation of Detailed Chemistry Stationary Diffusion Flames on Parallel Computers. In: Hirschel, E.H. (eds) Flow Simulation with High-Performance Computers II. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics (NNFM), vol 48. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-89849-4_11
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