@inproceedings{2beabf6ee8a1450a8f93d57c43ca48c1,
title = "Parallel computing as a vehicle for engineering design of functional surfaces",
abstract = "Thin liquid film flow over surfaces containing complex multiply connected topography is modelled using lubrication theory. The resulting time dependent nonlinear coupled set of governing equations for film thickness and pressure is solved on different parallel computing platforms using a purpose written portable and scalable parallel multigrid algorithm in order to achieve the fine-scale resolution required to guarantee mesh independent solutions. The robustness of the approach is demonstrated via the solution of three problems: one to establish the convergence characteristics viz. the partitioning and message passing strategies adopted, taking flow through a sparsely distributed set of occlusions as a benchmark; two considering free-surface planarisation with respect to flow over complex topography - the first an engineered functional substrate, the second a naturally occurring surface.",
keywords = "Adaptive time-stepping, Lubrication approximation, Multigrid, Parallelisation, Thin film flow",
author = "Lee, {Y. C.} and Emerson, {D. R.} and Gaskell, {P. H.} and Gu, {X. J.} and Thompson, {H. M.}",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.4203/ccp.90.42",
language = "English",
series = "Civil-Comp Proceedings",
publisher = "Civil-Comp Press",
editor = "Topping, {B. H. V.} and P. Iv{\'a}nyi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing for Engineering",
note = "1st International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing for Engineering 2009, PARENG 2009 ; Conference date: 06-04-2009 Through 08-04-2009",
}