Bluebottle is the many-GPU extension of Bluebottle, a GPU-centric finite- difference imcompressible Navier-Stokes flow solver coupled with the Physalis method for fully resolving spherical particles dispersed throughout the flow. It is a research code developed by Daniel Willen (daniel.willen@jhu.edu) under the supervision of Dr. Adam Sierakowski (sierakowski@jhu.edu) and Prof. Andrea Prosperetti at the Johns Hopkins University.
The capability of solving temperature field using many-GPU is added in a recent extension to Bluebottle-3.0 by Yuhang Zhang (yzhan175@jhu.edu) based on Yayun Wang's work which runs in single-GPU. The code is able to run Rayleigh Benard convection simulation with several thousand resolved particles.
The original single-GPU code was developed by Adam Sierakowski under the supervision of Prof. Prosperetti and can be found at: https://github.com/groundcherry/bluebottle More information and documentation is available at: physalisCFD.org
There are several branches in this repository:
Bluebottle has been released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and is available at: https://github.com/groundcherry/bluebottle-3.0
For installation instructions, see the accompanying INSTALL document.
For run instructions, see the accompanying RUN document.
The most recent documentation can be found on the Bluebottle Wiki at http://lucan.me.jhu.edu or physaliscfd.org. Most of the documentation for the single-GPU version applies to the many-GPU version as well.
Bluebottle is an academic research code being actively developed. Should you have any questions about the code, please submit an issue using the Bluebottle Issue tracker at https://github.com/groundcherry/bluebottle-3.0/issues.