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Parallel Process System and its Application to Steam Generator Structural Analysis  

Chang Yoon-Suk (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Ko Han-Ok (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Choi Jae-Boong (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Kim Young-Jin (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology / v.19, no.11, 2005 , pp. 2007-2015 More about this Journal
Abstract
A large-scale analysis to evaluate complex material and structural behaviors is one of interesting topic in diverse engineering and scientific fields. Also, the utilization of massively parallel processors has been a recent trend of high performance computing. The objective of this paper is to introduce a parallel process system which consists of general purpose finite element analysis solver as well as parallelized PC cluster. The later was constructed using eight processing elements and the former was developed adopting both hierarchical domain decomposition method and balancing domain decomposition method. Then, to verify the efficiency of the established system, it was applied for structural analysis of steam generator in nuclear power plant. Since the prototypal evaluation results agreed well to the corresponding reference solutions it is believed that, after reinforcement of PC cluster by increasing number of processing elements, the promising parallel process system can be utilized as a useful tool for advanced structural integrity evaluation.
Keywords
ADVENTURE_Solid; Balancing Domain Decomposition; Hierarchical Domain Decomposition; Parallel Process System; PC Cluster; Steam Generator;
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