An implicit harmonic balance (HB) method for modeling the unsteady nonlinear periodic flow about vibrating airfoils in turbomachinery is presented. An implicit edge-based three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations (RANS) solver for unstructured grids, which runs both on central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), is used. The HB method performs a spectral discretization of the time derivatives and marches in pseudotime, a new system of equations where the unknowns are the variables at different time samples. The application of the method to vibrating airfoils is discussed. It is shown that a time-spectral scheme may achieve the same temporal accuracy at a much lower computational cost than a backward finite-difference method at the expense of using more memory. The performance of the implicit solver has been assessed with several application examples. A speed-up factor of 10 is obtained between the spectral and finite-difference version of the code, whereas an additional speed-up factor of 10 is obtained when the code is ported to GPUs, totalizing a speed factor of 100. The performance of the solver in GPUs has been assessed using the tenth standard aeroelastic configuration and a transonic compressor.

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