Distributed finite element computations using object-oriented techniques

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-72

  Mukunda, G R ^c   Sotelino, Elisa D ^a   Hsieh, Shang Hsien ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c 1284 Civil Engineering Building ^*

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Finite element analysis; Object oriented analysis design; Parallel processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

DISTRIBUTED FINITE ELEMENT COMPUTATIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031652426     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01198975     Document Type: Article

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