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accelerating a cfd-dem simulation

    • parsaary
      Subscriber

      Hi,

      I need some help for speeding up a 2-way coupled fluent-rocky simulation being run on an HPC. Currently using a single node since I think rocky doesn't work on multinode. The current allocation is 4 gpu's for rocky, 20 cpu's for fluent, and the remaining 4 cpu's in the node are left free to be used for data transfer between rocky and fluent. I don't know what the bottle neck is, but I have pasted below an exerpt from the fluent and rocky logs at the same flow time. Thanks for your help!

      Fluent log:

      ...Signal received from Rocky.
      ...Reading Rocky data.
      ...Rocky data read message sent!
      Flow time = 0.0005170320000002374s, time step = 25060
      ********************************************************************
      Elapsed time = 4099.916666666666 s
      ********************************************************************
       
      /solve/dual-time-iterate 1 50
      Updating solution at time level N...
       done.
       
        iter  continuity     u-water  u-particle     v-water  v-particle     w-water  w-particle     k-water  k-particle   eps-water  eps-partic  vf-particl     time/iter
       30380  2.4872e-06  3.0265e-07  0.0000e+00  2.1331e-07  0.0000e+00  3.5284e-08  0.0000e+00  2.4211e-05  0.0000e+00  1.6416e-09  0.0000e+00  1.1737e-05  0:10:07   50
       
      ...ReceiveFluentDataReadMessage Received
      ...Exporting Fluent flow data to Rocky!
      ...Exporting Reference Density = 1.23e+00
      ...Fluent flow data written to Rocky!
      ...Fluent data sent to Rocky! 30381  2.5017e-06  3.0370e-07  0.0000e+00  2.1372e-07  0.0000e+00  3.5308e-08  0.0000e+00  2.4211e-05  0.0000e+00  1.6415e-09  0.0000e+00  1.1737e-05  0:09:55   49
      !30381 solution is converged
       
      ...Signal received from Rocky.
      ...Reading Rocky data.
      ...Rocky data read message sent!
      Flow time = 0.0005170492000002374s, time step = 25061
      ********************************************************************
      Elapsed time = 4100.716666666667 s
       
       
       
      Rocky Log:
      CFDCoupling: Send CFD data
      Rocky current time = 5.17032e-05 iteration: 24048 last output time: 1.72172e-05
      CFD flow time: 1.72e-08 iteration: 0
      Sending fluent message
      Send Rocky Data Write Message.
      Waiting for fluent message
      Fluent write data message received.
      Sent Fluent Data Read Message.
      CFDCoupling: Received CFD data. Target DT = 1.72e-08
      CFDCoupling: Send CFD data
      Rocky current time = 5.17204e-05 iteration: 24056 last output time: 1.72172e-05
      CFD flow time: 1.72e-08 iteration: 0
    • parsaary
      Subscriber

       

       

      Full Rocky Log: (my original post above didn’t include some details)

      message
      message date="2025-10-23 17:09:04" up_time="11:19:36.149"
      CFDCoupling: Send CFD data
      Rocky current time = 5.17032e-05 iteration: 24048 last output time: 1.72172e-05
      CFD flow time: 1.72e-08 iteration: 0
      message
      message date="2025-10-23 17:09:04" up_time="11:19:36.150"
      Sending fluent message
      message
      message date="2025-10-23 17:09:08" up_time="11:19:40.675"
      Send Rocky Data Write Message.
      message
      message date="2025-10-23 17:09:08" up_time="11:19:40.729"
      Waiting for fluent message
      message
      message date="2025-10-23 17:09:16" up_time="11:19:48.482"
      Fluent write data message received.
      message
      message date="2025-10-23 17:09:17" up_time="11:19:49.283"
      Sent Fluent Data Read Message.
      message
      message date="2025-10-23 17:09:17" up_time="11:19:49.283"
      CFDCoupling: Received CFD data. Target DT = 1.72e-08
      message
      message date="2025-10-23 17:09:17" up_time="11:19:49.535"
      CFDCoupling: Send CFD data
      Rocky current time = 5.17204e-05 iteration: 24056 last output time: 1.72172e-05
      CFD flow time: 1.72e-08 iteration: 0
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