Deciphering boundary layer dynamics in high-Rayleigh-number convection using 3360 GPUs and a high-scaling in-situ workflow

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Autori principali: Bode, Mathis, Alvarez, Damian, Fischer, Paul, Frouzakis, Christos E., Göbbert, Jens Henrik, Insley, Joseph A., Lan, Yu-Hsiang, Mateevitsi, Victor A., Min, Misun, Papka, Michael E., Rizzi, Silvio, Samuel, Roshan J., Schumacher, Jörg
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author Bode, Mathis
Alvarez, Damian
Fischer, Paul
Frouzakis, Christos E.
Göbbert, Jens Henrik
Insley, Joseph A.
Lan, Yu-Hsiang
Mateevitsi, Victor A.
Min, Misun
Papka, Michael E.
Rizzi, Silvio
Samuel, Roshan J.
Schumacher, Jörg
author_facet Bode, Mathis
Alvarez, Damian
Fischer, Paul
Frouzakis, Christos E.
Göbbert, Jens Henrik
Insley, Joseph A.
Lan, Yu-Hsiang
Mateevitsi, Victor A.
Min, Misun
Papka, Michael E.
Rizzi, Silvio
Samuel, Roshan J.
Schumacher, Jörg
contents Turbulent heat and momentum transfer processes due to thermal convection cover many scales and are of great importance for several natural and technical flows. One consequence is that a fully resolved three-dimensional analysis of these turbulent transfers at high Rayleigh numbers, which includes the boundary layers, is possible only using supercomputers. The visualization of these dynamics poses an additional hurdle since the thermal and viscous boundary layers in thermal convection fluctuate strongly. In order to track these fluctuations continuously, data must be tapped at high frequency for visualization, which is difficult to achieve using conventional methods. This paper makes two main contributions in this context. First, it discusses the simulations of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection up to Rayleigh numbers of $Ra=10^{12}$ computed with NekRS on GPUs. The largest simulation was run on 840 nodes with 3360 GPU on the JUWELS Booster supercomputer. Secondly, an in-situ workflow using ASCENT is presented, which was successfully used to visualize the high-frequency turbulent fluctuations.
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spellingShingle Deciphering boundary layer dynamics in high-Rayleigh-number convection using 3360 GPUs and a high-scaling in-situ workflow
Bode, Mathis
Alvarez, Damian
Fischer, Paul
Frouzakis, Christos E.
Göbbert, Jens Henrik
Insley, Joseph A.
Lan, Yu-Hsiang
Mateevitsi, Victor A.
Min, Misun
Papka, Michael E.
Rizzi, Silvio
Samuel, Roshan J.
Schumacher, Jörg
Fluid Dynamics
Performance
Computational Physics
Turbulent heat and momentum transfer processes due to thermal convection cover many scales and are of great importance for several natural and technical flows. One consequence is that a fully resolved three-dimensional analysis of these turbulent transfers at high Rayleigh numbers, which includes the boundary layers, is possible only using supercomputers. The visualization of these dynamics poses an additional hurdle since the thermal and viscous boundary layers in thermal convection fluctuate strongly. In order to track these fluctuations continuously, data must be tapped at high frequency for visualization, which is difficult to achieve using conventional methods. This paper makes two main contributions in this context. First, it discusses the simulations of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection up to Rayleigh numbers of $Ra=10^{12}$ computed with NekRS on GPUs. The largest simulation was run on 840 nodes with 3360 GPU on the JUWELS Booster supercomputer. Secondly, an in-situ workflow using ASCENT is presented, which was successfully used to visualize the high-frequency turbulent fluctuations.
title Deciphering boundary layer dynamics in high-Rayleigh-number convection using 3360 GPUs and a high-scaling in-situ workflow
topic Fluid Dynamics
Performance
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13240