Researchers from the École Polytechnique de Montréal showed that Jacket is very efficient to rapidly calculate 2D or 3D isotropic gradients in MATLAB® code. From a mathematical point of view, the isotropic gradients are characterized by their very precise orientation compared to the standard 1D finite difference discretizations. Using convolution functions developed by AccelerEyes, the method becomes very simple to apply and provides a very fast evaluation of isotropic gradients of functions or images. This type of isotropic discretization currently has an application in computational fluid dynamics. They are useful for simulating immiscible multiphase flows using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), where the orientation of the various fluid interfaces has to be computed very frequently and precisely. In multiphase flow …
GPU accelerated lattice Boltzmann model for shallow water flow and mass transport
Dr. Kevin Tubbs and Professor Tsai at Louisiana State University recently published an interesting paper using GPUs and Jacket to accelerate lattice Boltzmann models for shallow water flow and mass transport. More details about this work are provided in the full success story page on the website. Jacket makes GPU programming easy. “Very little recoding was needed to promote the LBM code to run on the GPU,” say the authors at one point in their paper. In this blog post, we share the highlights of this work. Using these methods, the authors are able to simulate shallow water flow and mass transport. For instance, checkout these videos of a dam break: The authors completed this work with a relatively older …