Distributed parallel simulation of surface tension driven viscous flow and transport processes

A domain decomposition approach and finite element formulation are developed for parallel distributed simulation of surface tension driven viscous flow and transport processes. The scheme is implemented in a finite element code MGFLO and is used to study performance on CRAY T3E and SGI Origin 2000 and 3000 parallel supercomputers as well as several PC clusters. The parallel algorithm implementation is briefly discussed, and scaled speedup studies are presented. Representative simulation results for surfactant and thermocapillary driven surface tension flows are also presented.