Zhang Yongjia, Zhou Jianxin, Yin Yajun, et al. GPU-accelerated Cellular Automaton Model for Dendritic Growth during Directional Solidification[J]. Special Casting & Nonferrous Alloys, 2022,42(6):740-743.
Based on the cellular automaton model and GPU parallel computing technology
the cellular automaton computing model for dendritic growth during the solidification process was realized on a single GPU card. Taking Al-Cu binary alloy as object
the single equiaxed crystal growth process and columnar crystal growth process were numerically simulated. With the increase of undercooling degree
secondary and tertiary dendrite arms are gradually developed in equiaxed dendrite
where the secondary dendrite arms of non-preferentially oriented dendrites are blocked by the preferentially oriented dendrites during directionally solidified dendrite competition growth
which is then eliminated. Comparison of the calculation speed with the CPU-based parallel model verifies the acceleration effect of the GPU-based calculation model
indicating that the speedup ratio can reach up to 10.90.