TY - GEN A1 - Kilian, Susanne A1 - Münch, Matthias T1 - A new generalized domain decomposition strategy for the efficient parallel solution of the FDS-pressure equation. Part I: Theory, Concept and Implementation N2 - A world-wide used program for the simulation of fire-induced flows is the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) which originally was developed for a purely serial execution on single-processor computing systems. Due to steadily increasing problem sizes and accuracy requirements as well as restrictions in storage capacity and computing power on single-processor systems, the efficient simulation of the considered fire scenarios can only be achieved on modern high-performance systems based on multi-processor architectures. The transition to those systems requires the elaborate parallelization of the underlying numerical methods which must guarantee the same result for a given problem as the corresponding serial execution. Unfortunately, one fundamental serial serial solver of FDS, the pressure solver, only possesses a low degree of inherent parallelizm. Its current parallelization may cause additional numerical errors, casually leading to significant losses of accuracy or even numerical instabilities. In order to ensure that the parallelization errors are limited by the leading error of the numerical scheme such that second order convergence for the whole method can be acchieved, optimized parallelization concepts must be designed. With respect to these considerations this articles gives an overview of the current parallel pressure solver as well as the problems related to it and presents an alternative method, SCARC, to overcome the existing complicacies. Part I explains the theory, concept and implementation of this new strategy, whereas Part II describes a series of validation and verification tests to proof its correctness. T3 - ZIB-Report - 09-19 KW - Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) KW - Zero-Mach number KW - domain decomposition KW - pressure-solver KW - fire safety engineering Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-11332 SN - 1438-0064 ER -