@inproceedings{817d36634dba4beeb40bdec5c4216bf6,
title = "Parallelization of a magnetohydrodynamics model for plasma simulation",
abstract = "Plasma simulations are inherently complex due to the numerous and intricate processes that naturally occur to matter in this state. Computer simulations and visualizations of plasma help researchers and scientists understand the physics that takes place in it. We have developed a parallel implementation of an application used to simulate and visualize the process of convection in plasma cells. This application implements a magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) approach to plasma modeling by numerically solving a fourth-order two-dimensional differential scheme. Results of experimentation with our parallel implementation are presented and analyzed. We managed to speedup the program by a factor of nearly 42× after parallelizing the code with OpenMP and using 128 cores on our Intel Xeon Phi KNL server. We also achieved an almost linear scalability of the execution time when increasing the size of the spatial and temporal domains.",
keywords = "MHD, OpenMP, Physics simulation, Plasma",
author = "Daniel Alvarado and Esteban Meneses and \{De La Ossa\}, {\'A}lvaro and Francisco Frutos-Alfaro",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 2018 IEEE 38th Central America and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2018 ; Conference date: 07-11-2018 Through 09-11-2018",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1109/CONCAPAN.2018.8596448",
language = "Ingl{\'e}s",
series = "Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 38th Central America and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2018",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
editor = "Cardona, \{Manuel N.\}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 38th Central America and Panama Convention, CONCAPAN 2018",
}