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Vol: 60(74) No: 1 / March 2015      

GPU Based Implementation of Inverse Heat Conduction Problem Solver
Sándor Szénási
Óbuda University, Faculty of Informatics, Bécsi út 96/b, 1034 Budapest, Hungary, phone: +36 (1) 666-5551, e-mail: szenasi.sandor@nik.uni-obuda.hu
Imre Felde
Óbuda University, Faculty of Informatics, Bécsi út 96/b, 1034 Budapest, Hungary, phone: +36 (1) 666-5528, e-mail: felde.imre@nik.uni-obuda.hu
István Kovács
Óbuda University, Faculty of Informatics, Bécsi út 96/b, 1034 Budapest, Hungary, e-mail: kovacs.istvan.perez@outlook.com


Keywords: IHCP, HTC, GPU, PSO, Parallel Algorithm

Abstract
Inverse Heat Conduction Problem means that the surface Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC)/Heat Flux (HF) must be determined from transient temperature measurements at given interior points. This is a typical ill-posed problem, because the solution’s behaviour does not change continuously with the initial conditions; therefore, there are no already known direct solutions. There are several heuristic methods to solve the IHCP, and one of the most promising methods is Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) developed by Eberhart and Kennedy in 1995. It has the ability to find the optimal solution in very large parameter spaces; however, it has some limitations. The main weaknesses are the high computational demand (and consequently a large runtime), and the unpredictable chance to find only a local but not the global optimum. This paper presents the implementation and the evaluation of a graphics accelerator-based parallel approach, which has significantly lower runtime (this GPU implementation is about three times faster than the original CPU-based sequential method). Furthermore, the authors examined the relationship between the size of the initial swarms and the final fitness values. The results indicate that it is worth it to generate a larger initial swarm and continue the processing using smaller further swarms. This technique combines the advantages of the large (better accuracy) and small (lower runtime) particle counts.

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