  In order to run Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes on large scale
infrastructures, parallel computing has to be used because of the computational
intensive nature of the problems. In this paper we investigate the ADAPT
platform where we couple flow Partial Differential Equations and a Poisson
equation. This leads to a linear system which we solve using direct methods.
The implementation deals with the MUMPS parallel multi-frontal direct solver
and mesh partitioning methods using METIS to improve the performance of the
framework. We also investigate, in this paper, how the mesh partitioning
methods are able to optimize the mesh cell distribution for the ADAPT solver.
The experience gained in this paper facilitates the move to the 3D version of
ADAPT and the move to a Service Oriented view of ADAPT as future work.
