Parallel Realization of Element by Element Analysis of Eddy Current Field Based on Graphic Processing Unit
Keywords:
Eddy current filed, element by element method, graphic processing unit, parallel computingAbstract
The element by element parallel finite element method (EbE-PFEM) applied to engineering eddy current problem is presented in this paper. Unlike classical finite element method (FEM), only element matrix is needed to store for EbE method. Thereby more storage memory saved. Element by element conjugated gradient (EbE-CG) method is used to solve the equations which are discretized from elements level. Considering the ill-conditioned character of system equations, highly parallel Jacobi preconditioned (JP) method is used to accelerate the convergence. Besides, the process of dealing with boundary condition based on EbE theory is introduced. To validate the method, a 2D eddy current problem in complex frequency domain is used. The numerical analysis is carried out on the graphic processing units (GPU) with a compute unified device architecture (CUDA) parallel programming model to accelerate the convergence. And the results demonstrate that the JP method and GPU platform are effective in solving eddy current field with improved convergence.
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