Large-scale lattice-Boltzmann simulations over lambda networks
Abstract
Amphiphilic molecules are of immense industrial importance, mainly due to their tendency to align at interfaces in a solution of immiscible species, e.g., oil and water, thereby reducing surface tension. Depending on the concentration of amphiphiles in the solution, they may assemble into a variety of morphologies, such as lamellae, micelles, sponge and cubic bicontinuous structures exhibiting non-trivial rheological properties. The main objective of this work is to study the rheological properties of very large, defect-containing gyroidal systems (of up to 10243 lattice sites) using the lattice-Boltzmann method. Memory requirements for the simulation of such large lattices exceed that available to us on most supercomputers and so we use MPICH-G2/MPIg to investigate geographically distributed domain decomposition simulations across HPCx in the UK and TeraGrid in the US. Use of MPICH-G2/MPIg requires the port-forwarder to work with the grid middleware on HPCx. Data from the simulations is streamed to a high performance visualisation resource at UCL (London) for rendering and visualisation. Lighting the Blue Touchpaper for UK e-Science - Closing Conference of ESLEA Project March 26-28 2007 The George Hotel, Edinburgh, UK
- Publication:
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Lighting the Blue Touchpaper for UK e-Science - Closing Conference of ESLEA Project
- Pub Date:
- 2007
- DOI:
- 10.22323/1.041.0012
- Bibcode:
- 2007lbtu.confE..12S