Parallel computation of incompressible flows in materials processing: Numerical experiments in diagonal preconditioning

Parallel Computing

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1379-1400

  Yeckel, Andrew ^a,b   Derby, Jeffrey J ^a,b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Incompressible flow; Iterative solution; Linear systems; Preconditioning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031220566     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8191(97)00059-8     Document Type: Article

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