Parallel discontinuous Galerkin unstructured mesh solvers for the calculation of 3D heterogeneous wave propagation problems

International audienceWe discuss the parallel performances of discontinuous Galerkin solvers designed on unstructured tetrahedral meshes for the calculation of three-dimensional heterogeneous electromagnetic and aeroacoustic wave propagation problems. An explicit leap-frog time-scheme along with centered numerical fluxes are used in the proposed discontinuous Galerkin time-domain (DGTD) methods. The schemes introduced are genuinely non-dissipative, in order to achieve a discrete equivalent of the energy conservation. Parallelization of these schemes is based on a standard strategy that combines mesh partitioning and a message passing programming model. The resulting parallel solvers are applied and evaluated on several large-scale, homogeneous and heterogeneous, wave propagation problems