Distributed parallel processing studies over heterogeneous computer networks

This area of research is associated with the computation of non-Newtonian flows on heterogeneous networks of processors. It addresses the need to perform highly compute-intensive calculations to simulate complex non-Newtonian flows on the industrial scale (EPSRC, £277 K). Via a comparative analysis of parallelisation paradigms, the most efficient implementations are investigated of target codes over a distributed heterogeneous computing environment using message passing protocols, see for example Grant et al. [j14]. Parallelised finite element, finite volume (Swansea) and spectral element (Aberystwyth) codes of UWINNFM are being developed for industrial rheological demonstrator problems, including those arising in three-dimensional, multi-mode, transient and free-surface flows. Similar studies have involved collaboration with Professors Morgan and Weatherill (Swansea) and spawned work on algebraic specification and parallelism for CFD, the subject of an EU/LTR (SAGA) project [j24] in conjunction with Area 1.