FILMPAR: A parallel algorithm designed for the efficient and accurate computation of thin film flow on functional surfaces containing micro-structure

Abstract
FILMPAR is a highly efficient and portable parallel multigrid algorithm for solving a discretised form of the lubrication approximation to three-dimensional, gravity-driven, continuous thin film free-surface flow over substrates containing micro-scale topography. While generally applicable to problems involving heterogeneous and distributed features, for illustrative purposes the algorithm is benchmarked on a distributed memory IBM BlueGene/P computing platform for the case of flow over a sin...

Title of program: FILMPAR
Catalogue Id: AEEL_v1_0

Nature of problem
Thin film flows over functional substrates containing well-defined single and complex topographical features are of enormous significance, having a wide variety of engineering, industrial and physical applications. However, despite recent modelling advances, the accurate numerical solution of the equations governing such problems is still at a relatively early stage. Indeed, recent studies employing a simplifying long-wave approximation have shown that highly efficient numerical methods are nece ...

Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data
AEEL_v1_0; FILMPAR; 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.06.012

This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2019)