Solving the Navier-Stokes equations on a workstation cluster

Abstract

A Finite Volume CFD code for modelling Natural convection has been parallelised using High Performance Fortran (HPF). A comparison is made between using HPF and message passing libraries (PVM and MPI) in terms of performance and ease of conversion. For the code being used by the authors HPF and MPI give similar speeds, and HPF was considered significantly simpler to program.