Spatial domain-based parallelism in large-scale, participating-media, radiative transport applications

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 401-421

  Bums, Shawn P ^a   Christon, Mark A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

PARTICIPATING MEDIA RADIATION TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS; SPATIAL DOMAIN BASED PARALLELISM;

HEAT RADIATION;

EID: 0031166156     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407799708915117     Document Type: Article

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