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Turbulent Flow Through a Transition Duct
 

Turbulent flow of air through a duct is computed for this benchmark. The cross-sectional planes of the duct transition from a circle at the inlet to a rectangle at the outflow boundary. The Reynolds-Stress Model (7 equation) is used for computing turbulence.

Number of cells
9,792,512
Cell type
hexahedral
Models
RSM turbulence
Solver
segregated implicit

Plots

Serial
Parallel

Results

In the table below, a rating listed in red corresponds to the redzone result, and one in bold is a peak result. Bold red is used to indicate that the run was both the peak and redzone result.

Results are listed alphabetically by platform, within each FLUENT version.

 

Platform FL5L3 RATINGS
FLUENT Version CPUs or Cores Machines or Blocks Rating Speedup Efficiency
APPRO XTREMESERVER (OPTERON_2CORE,2800,RHEL4,IB) 6.3 serial 1 17.7 N/A N/A
1 1 18.0 1.0 100%
2 1 40.5 2.2 112%
4 1 57.4 3.2 80%
8 1 138.3 7.7 96%
12 2 174.5 9.7 81%
16 3 212.8 11.8 74%
BULL NOVASCALE (EM64T_WOODCREST_2CORE,3000,RHEL4,IB) 6.3 1 1 29.0 1.0 100%
4 1 78.9 2.7 68%
8 2 157.8 5.4 68%
16 4 313.2 10.8 68%
32 8 619.0 21.3 67%
64 16 1201.3 41.4 65%
128 32 2258.8 77.9 61%
HP BL460C (EM64T_WOODCREST_2CORE,3000,WINCCS,IB_HPMPI) 6.3 1 1 29.6 1.0 100%
2 1 54.9 1.9 93%
4 1 80.3 2.7 68%
8 2 155.4 5.2 66%
16 4 299.0 10.1 63%
32 8 576.0 19.5 61%
HP DL140 (EM64T_WOODCREST_2CORE,3000,LINUX,IB) 6.3 8 2 160.7 N/A N/A
16 4 320.5 N/A N/A
32 8 620.1 N/A N/A
64 16 1188.0 N/A N/A
HP DL145_G2 (OPTERON_2CORE,2200,WINCCS,IB_HPMPI) 6.3 1 1 18.4 1.0 100%
2 1 35.5 1.9 96%
4 1 60.0 3.3 82%
8 2 119.2 6.5 81%
16 4 212.3 11.5 72%
32 8 392.7 21.3 67%
64 16 576.0 31.3 49%
HP DL145_G3 (OPTERON_2CORE,2600,RHEL4,IB_VOLTAIRE) 6.3 serial 1 18.2 N/A N/A
1 1 17.7 1.0 100%
2 1 37.9 2.1 107%
4 1 52.1 2.9 74%
8 2 153.9 8.7 109%
16 4 307.6 17.4 109%
32 8 604.7 34.2 107%
64 16 1142.5 64.5 101%
128 32 2059.6 116.4 91%
IBM X3455 (OPTERON_2CORE,2800,LINUX,GIGE) 6.3 8 2 124.0 N/A N/A
16 4 209.1 N/A N/A
32 8 437.9 N/A N/A
64 16 756.7 N/A N/A
128 32 1304.6 N/A N/A
IBM X3455 (OPTERON_2CORE,2800,LINUX,IB) 6.3 8 2 156.3 N/A N/A
16 4 318.8 N/A N/A
32 8 628.5 N/A N/A
64 16 1179.5 N/A N/A
128 32 2088.2 N/A N/A
IBM X3550 (EM64T_2CORE,3000,SLES9,GIGE) 6.3 2 2 51.0 N/A N/A
4 2 97.2 N/A N/A
8 2 145.6 N/A N/A
16 4 287.7 N/A N/A
32 8 559.5 N/A N/A
64 16 1024.9 N/A N/A
128 32 1639.5 N/A N/A
IBM X3550 (EM64T_2CORE,3000,SLES9,IB) 6.3 2 2 55.0 N/A N/A
4 2 94.9 N/A N/A
8 2 149.9 N/A N/A
16 4 306.8 N/A N/A
32 8 604.4 N/A N/A
64 16 1090.2 N/A N/A
128 32 2191.5 N/A N/A
IBM X3550 (EM64T_2CORE,3000,SLES9,MYRI) 6.3 8 2 146.5 N/A N/A
16 4 287.3 N/A N/A
32 8 574.3 N/A N/A
64 16 1102.0 N/A N/A
128 32 2053.5 N/A N/A
INTEL WHITEBOX (INTEL64_HARPERTOWN_4CORE,3000,RHEL4) 6.3 serial 1 27.7 N/A N/A
1 1 27.9 1.0 100%
2 1 54.2 1.9 97%
8 1 120.0 4.3 54%
SGI ALTIX4700 (IA64_MONTECITO_2CORE,1600,LINUX) 6.3 serial 1 11.1 N/A N/A
1 1 11.7 1.0 100%
2 1 22.8 1.9 97%
4 1 42.7 3.6 91%
8 1 86.6 7.4 93%
16 1 167.9 14.4 90%
32 1 337.7 28.9 90%
64 1 657.7 56.2 88%
128 1 1184.4 101.2 79%
SGI ALTIX_ICE (INTEL64_CLOVERTOWN_4CORE,2600,LINUX,IB) 6.3 8 1 95.8 N/A N/A
16 1 197.0 N/A N/A
32 1 389.8 N/A N/A
64 1 755.4 N/A N/A
128 1 1419.9 N/A N/A
256 1 2560.0 N/A N/A
SGI ALTIX_ICE (INTEL64_HARPERTOWN_4CORE,2800,LINUX,IB) 6.3 serial 1 26.3 N/A N/A
1 1 30.8 1.0 100%
2 1 57.3 1.9 93%
4 1 90.7 2.9 74%
8 1 109.5 3.6 44%
16 1 219.1 7.1 44%
32 1 435.3 14.1 44%
64 1 866.4 28.1 44%
128 1 1727.1 56.1 44%
SGI ALTIXXE210 (EM64T_WOODCREST_2CORE,3000,LINUX,IB_VOLTAIRE) 6.3 serial 1 26.8 N/A N/A
1 1 29.6 1.0 100%
2 1 56.2 1.9 95%
4 1 80.7 2.7 68%
8 2 161.0 5.4 68%
16 4 319.0 10.8 67%
32 8 627.7 21.2 66%
64 16 1206.3 40.8 64%
128 32 2223.9 75.1 59%
TYAN TYPHOON_630 (EM64T_WOODCREST_2CORE,2300,SLES10,GIGE) 6.3 8 2 122.7 N/A N/A
16 4 242.5 N/A N/A