High-Performance Computational Methods for Coupled Field Problems

大挑战应用组竞赛为工程师和科学家组成的多学科团队提供了一种支持机制，以实现1992财年高性能计算和通信(HPCC)倡议的目标。理想的方案不仅提供了优秀的基础研究：具有潜在重大影响的科学和工程关键领域的焦点问题(S)，而且还提供了涉及数学、计算机或计算科学家的各种学科和计算活动之间的重大互动，这将对超出特定问题领域(S)或正在研究的学科的高性能计算活动产生影响。这些是应用数学、天体物理学、计算机和计算科学、工程学、地球物理科学之间的合作项目的目标，目的是为与耦合场和相干结构以及地球物理和天体物理流体动力学(GAFD)湍流有关的问题开发并行算法。各种应用领域的共同点是性能测量、海量数据集和多TB数据集的可视化。除了科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的专业知识外，国家大气研究中心(NCAR)的科学家将为地转湍流和海洋对流研究做出贡献，明尼苏达大学的科学家将获得分包合同，他们将贡献天体物理和可视化方面的专业知识。

The Grand Challenge Application Groups competition provides one mechanism for the support of multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists to meet the goals of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Initiative in Fiscal Year 1992. The ideal proposal provides not only excellence in basic research: focussed problem with potential for substantial impact in critical area(s) of science and engineering, but also significant interactions between the various disciplinary and computational activities involving mathematical, computer or computational scientists, that would have an impact in high performance computational activity beyond the specific problem area(s) or discipline being studied. These are the goals of this project which is a collaboration between applied mathematics, astrophysics, computer and computational science, engineering, geophysical sciences, to develop parallel algorithms for problems relating to Coupled Fields and Coherent Structures and Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (GAFD) Turbulence. The common denominator of the various application areas are performance measures, massive data sets, and the visualization of multi- terabyte data sets. In addition to the expertise at the University of Colorado at Boulder, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will contribute to geostrophic turbulence and ocean convection research, and a sub-contract will be given to the scientists at the University of Minnesota who will contribute expertise in both astrophysics and visualization.