Parallel CFD 2000, the Twelfth in an International series of meetings featuring computational fluid dynamics research on parallel computers, was held May 22-25, 2000 in Trondheim, Norway.Following the trend of the past conferences, areas such as numerical schemes and algorithms, tools and environments, load balancing, as well as interdisciplinary topics and various kinds of industrial applications were all well represented in the work presented. In addition, for the first time in the Parallel CFD conference series, the organizing committee chose to draw special attention to certain subject areas by organizing a number of special sessions.We feel the emphasis of the papers presented at the conference reflect the direction of the research within parallel CFD at the beginning of the new millennium. It seems to be a clear tendency towards increased industrial exploitation of parallel CFD. Several presentations also demonstrated how new insight is being achieved from complex simulations, and how powerful parallel computers now make it possible to use CFD within a broader interdisciplinary setting.Obviously, successful application of parallel CFD still rests on the underlying fundamental principles. Therefore, numerical algorithms, development tools, and parallelization techniques are still as important as when parallel CFD was in is infancy. Furthermore, the novel concepts of affordable parallel computing as well as metacomputing show that exciting developments are still taking place.As is often pointed out however, the real power of parallel CFD comes from the combination of all the disciplines involved: Physics, mathematics, and computer science. This is probably one of the principal reasons for the continued popularity of the Parallel CFD Conferences series, as well as the inspiration behind much of the excellent work carried out on the subject. We hope that the papers in this book, both on an individual basis and as a whole, will contribute to that inspiration. Further details of Parallel CFD'99, as well as other conferences in this series, are available at http://www.parcfd.org

Parallel and distributed architectures are emerging as commonplace platforms for high performance computing. The existence of standard parallel programming libraries facilitates the use of such platforms for running challenging applications in science or engineering. However, as compared to the homogeneous case, a number of additional factors should be taken into account in order to ensure an efficient execution on heterogeneous computing environments. In such systems one must consider not only the application's dynamic behavior but also the environment's dynamics. We dealt with the dynamic load balancing for parallel adaptive simulations in heterogeneous computing environments. Such applications are usually characterized by the fact that the workloads assigned to processors may change significantly and unpredictably. Our work followed two main directions. In a first step we developed a theoretical heterogeneous computational model and we extended and analyzed the well-known diffusion algorithms with respect to such a model. Afterwards, our variant of generalized diffusion was further compared with other approaches and was shown to be faster than another popular technique, the hydrodynamic algorithm. The possibility of using polynomial acceleration schemes in a dynamic context was further investigated. Other faster dynamic load balancing schemes were proposed and investigated. An incremental algorithm that is capable of taking advantage of an already computed fair distribution for computing a new one was described. In a second step, we designed and implemented a testbed for adaptive numerical simulations in heterogeneous computing environments. A tool, called HeRMeS, which allows to perform such simulations and that incorporates the methods developed at the first step, was designed and implemented. Experiments with the discussed methods and with HeRMeS were performed.

Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) is an internationally recognised fast-growing field. Since 1989, the number of participants attending Parallel CFD Conferences has doubled.In order to keep track of current global developments, the Parallel CFD Conference annually brings scientists together to discuss and report results on the utilization of parallel computing as a practical computational tool for solving complex fluid dynamic problems. This volume contains the results of research conducted during the past year.Subject areas covered include: novel parallel algorithms, parallel Euler and Navier-Stokes solvers, parallel Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method and parallel multigrid techniques. The content of the book also demonstrates that considerable effort is being made to utilize parallel computing to solve a variety of fluid dynamics problems in topics such as climate modeling, consultation, aerodynamics and in many other areas.Readers of this book will gain a valid insight into the exciting recent developments in Parallel CFD research.

The book is devoted to using of parallel multiprocessor computer systems for numerical simulation of the problems which can be described by the equations of continuum mechanics. Parallel algorithms and software, the problems of meta-computing are discussed in details, some results of high performance simulation of modern gas dynamic problems, combustion phenomena, plasma physics etc are presented.·Parallel Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Studies