Nektar plus plus : An open-source spectral/hp element framework
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2015

Nektar++ is an open-source software framework designed to support the development of high-performance scalable solvers for partial differential equations using the spectral/hp element method. High-order methods are gaining prominence in several engineering and biomedical applications due to their improved accuracy over low-order techniques at reduced computational cost for a given number of degrees of freedom. However, their proliferation is often limited by their complexity, which makes these methods challenging to implement and use. Nektar++ is an initiative to overcome this limitation by encapsulating the mathematical complexities of the underlying method within an efficient C++ framework, making the techniques more accessible to the broader scientific and industrial communities. The software supports a variety of discretisation techniques and implementation strategies, supporting methods research as well as application-focused computation, and the multi-layered structure of the framework allows the user to embrace as much or as little of the complexity as they need. The libraries capture the mathematical constructs of spectral/hp element methods, while the associated collection of pre-written PDE solvers provides out-of-the-box application-level functionality and a template for users who wish to develop solutions for addressing questions in their own scientific domains. Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 1052456 No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 42851367 External routines: Boost, PFTW, MPI, BLAS, LAPACK and METIS (www.cs.umn.edu) Nature of problem: The Nektar++ framework is designed to enable the discretisation and solution of time-independent or time-dependent partial differential equations. Running time: The tests provided take a few minutes to run. Runtime in general depends on mesh size and total integration time.

Spectral/hp elements

High-order finite elements

Continuous Galerkin method

Författare

C. D. Cantwell

Imperial College London

D. Moxey

Imperial College London

A. Comerford

Imperial College London

A. Bolis

Imperial College London

G. Rocco

Imperial College London

G. Mengaldo

Imperial College London

D. De Grazia

Imperial College London

S. Yakovlev

University of Utah

J. E. Lombard

Imperial College London

D. Ekelschot

Imperial College London

B. Jordi

Imperial College London

H. Xu

Imperial College London

Y. Mohamied

Imperial College London

Claes Eskilsson

Chalmers, Sjöfart och marin teknik, Marin teknik

B. Nelson

University of Utah

P. Vos

Imperial College London

C. Biotto

Imperial College London

R. M. Kirby

University of Utah

S. J. Sherwin

Imperial College London

Computer Physics Communications

0010-4655 (ISSN)

Vol. 192 205-219

Ämneskategorier

Programvaruteknik

DOI

10.1016/j.cpc.2015.02.008

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