Massive Graphical Processing Unit Parallelization for Multirotor Computational Fluid Dynamics

What is it about?

This work characterizes a GPU accelerated hybrid CFD methodology for fast predictions of rotorcraft performance with high accuracy compared to other methods of similar computational cost. New scripting for implementing the program on a multi-GPU accelerated desktop workstation allows for thousands of multirotor CFD simulations to be completed in a reasonable amount of time. The methodology is suited for applications such as Monte Carlo simulation and the creation of rotor performance lookup tables to support flight vehicle and controller design.

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