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Multigrid Solutions of the
Two-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations
Using High-Performance Fortran
Jay H. Hui
Ken A. Hawick
Ammar T. Degani
Abstract:
An evaluation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) using High-Performance Fortran (HPF) was undertaken.
HPF, as a natural extension to Fortran 90, incorporates many new
features from Fortran 77, particularly in the areas of data parallelism using arrays, which exist in
Fortran 90 and are carried over to HPF. The study of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and multigrid
methods in HPF involved porting existing Fortran 77 code to Fortran 90 and then to HPF and evaluating HPF
as an alternative to existing message-passing techniques, such as MPI. The process of creating HPF code will also provide
details as to how well HPF is suited for multigrid methods and ideas for the next generation of HPF.