Dynamics simulation of multibody chains on a transputer system

Concurrency Practice and Experience

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 235-249

  Pond, B ^a   Sharf, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

MULTIBODY CHAINS; SIMULATION DYNAMICS ALGORITHMS;

TRANSPUTERS;

EID: 0030130090     PISSN: 10403108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199604)8:3<235::AID-CPE201>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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