Parallel Simulations of Dynamic Fracture Using Extrinsic Cohesive Elements
Authors:
Isaac Dooley and Sandhya Mangala and Laxmikant Kale and Philippe Geubelle
Parallel Programming Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Springer's Journal of Scientific Computing Volume 39 Number 1, April 2009
This paper supercedes an earlier PPL technical report.
In this paper, we present a novel parallel implementation of extrinsic initially rigid cohesive elements in an explicit finite element solver designed for the simulation of dynamic fracture events. The implementation is based on activating instead of inserting the cohesive elements and uses ParFUM, a parallel framework specifically developed for simulations involving unstructured meshes. Aspects of the parallel implementation are described, along with an analysis of its performance on 1 to 512 processors. Important cache effects and communication costs are included in this analysis. The implementation is validated by simulating the trapping of a crack along an inclined material interface.