DISTRIBUTED COMBUSTION SIMULATIONS

This paper reports research in progress. Two types of domain decomposi tion have been used in distributed computing with networked workstatio ns for the numerical modeling of full-scale utility boilers. The numer ical model is a three-dimensional combustion code which couples turbul ent computational fluid dynamics with the chemical reaction process an d the radiative heat transfer. Two approaches, here called microscale parallelism and macroscale parallelism, are proposed to study the intr insic parallelism of typical combustion simulations. We describe the i mplementation of the microscale parallelism as well as its performance on networked workstations.