期刊名称：IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
印刷版ISSN：1755-1307
电子版ISSN：1755-1315
出版年度：2019
卷号：240
期号：5
页码：1-12
DOI：10.1088/1755-1315/240/5/052025
出版社：IOP Publishing
摘要：Simulating the transient processes in complex water transmission system is time-consuming, and improving computational efficiency by means of parallelization on CPU clusters or even faster GPU platform is demanded. This paper proposes an approach to accelerate the transient simulations of open channel and pipe combined flows on single GPU chip. The Saint-Venant equations for open channel flows is solved by using the method of characteristics (MOC), whose inherent parallelism can be well exploited by GPU implementations in the thread-level parallelism structure of Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). The sub-processes, including open channel computation, pipe flow computation and connecting boundary treatment, are implemented by different kernels. The procedures are first verified by analyzing the parallel computation efficiency of hydraulic transient processes in an open channel. Then the transient processes of a practical engineering project, which involves both open channel flow and pressurized pipe flow, are simulated. The GPU kernels are found to be memory bandwidth bounded, and the proposed single chip GPU parallel can achieve up to hundreds of speedup ratios compared to the sequential counterpart on single CPU chip.
