Ebook: Supercomputers and Fluid Dynamics: Proceedings of the First Nobeyama Workshop September 3–6, 1985

In the past several years, it has become apparent that computing will soon achieve a status within science and engineering to the classical scientific methods of laboratory experiment and theoretical analysis. The foremost tools of state-of-the-art computing applications are supercomputers, which are simply the fastest and biggest computers available at any given time. Supercomputers and supercomputing go hand-in-hand in pacing the development of scientific and engineering applications of computing. Experience has shown that supercomputers improve in speed and capability by roughly a factor 1000 every 20 years. Supercomputers today include the Cray XMP and Cray-2, manufactured by Cray Research, Inc., the Cyber 205, manufactured by Control Data Corporation, the Fujitsu VP, manufactured by Fujitsu, Ltd., the Hitachi SA-810/20, manufactured by Hitachi, Ltd., and the NEC SX, manufactured by NEC, Inc. The fastest of these computers are nearly three orders-of-magnitude faster than the fastest computers available in the mid-1960s, like the Control Data CDC 6600. While the world-wide market for supercomputers today is only about 50 units per year, it is expected to grow rapidly over the next several years to about 200 units per year.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Secondary Instabilities, Coherent Structures and Turbulence....Pages 1-14
Bootstrapping in Turbulence Computation....Pages 15-27
Development of High-Reynolds-Number-Flow Computaion....Pages 28-40
Spectral Element Simulation of Flow in Grooved Channels: Cooling Chips with Tollmien-Schlichting Waves....Pages 41-51
A Vortex Ring Interacting with a Vortex Filament and its Deformation Near the Two-Dimensional Stagnation Point....Pages 52-61
A New Three-Dimensional Vortex Method....Pages 62-76
Multi-Cell Vortices Observed in Fine-Mesh Solutions to the Incompressible Euler Equations....Pages 77-88
Implicit Boundary Treatment for Joined and Disjoint Patched Mesh Systems....Pages 89-97
Computational Study of Three-Dimensional Wake Structure....Pages 98-107
A Semi-Elliptic Analysis of Internal Viscous Flows....Pages 108-117
Simulation of Self-Induced Unsteady Motion in the Near Wake of a Joukowski Airfoil....Pages 118-132
Viscous Compressible Flow Simulations Using Supercomputers....Pages 133-147
The Scalar Performance of Three Supercomputers Cray’s X-MP/2, Fujitsu’s VP-200 and NEC’s SX-2....Pages 148-158
NEC Supercomputer SX System....Pages 159-164
FX: A CMOS-Implemented Digital Spectro-Correlator System for Radio Astronomy....Pages 165-173
The Cray-2: The New Standard in Supercomputing....Pages 174-183
An Introduction to the ETA10 ....Pages 184-200

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Secondary Instabilities, Coherent Structures and Turbulence....Pages 1-14
Bootstrapping in Turbulence Computation....Pages 15-27
Development of High-Reynolds-Number-Flow Computaion....Pages 28-40
Spectral Element Simulation of Flow in Grooved Channels: Cooling Chips with Tollmien-Schlichting Waves....Pages 41-51
A Vortex Ring Interacting with a Vortex Filament and its Deformation Near the Two-Dimensional Stagnation Point....Pages 52-61
A New Three-Dimensional Vortex Method....Pages 62-76
Multi-Cell Vortices Observed in Fine-Mesh Solutions to the Incompressible Euler Equations....Pages 77-88
Implicit Boundary Treatment for Joined and Disjoint Patched Mesh Systems....Pages 89-97
Computational Study of Three-Dimensional Wake Structure....Pages 98-107
A Semi-Elliptic Analysis of Internal Viscous Flows....Pages 108-117
Simulation of Self-Induced Unsteady Motion in the Near Wake of a Joukowski Airfoil....Pages 118-132
Viscous Compressible Flow Simulations Using Supercomputers....Pages 133-147
The Scalar Performance of Three Supercomputers Cray’s X-MP/2, Fujitsu’s VP-200 and NEC’s SX-2....Pages 148-158
NEC Supercomputer SX System....Pages 159-164
FX: A CMOS-Implemented Digital Spectro-Correlator System for Radio Astronomy....Pages 165-173
The Cray-2: The New Standard in Supercomputing....Pages 174-183
An Introduction to the ETA10 ....Pages 184-200
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