Computational aspects of a code to study rotating turbulent convection in spherical shells

Parallel Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 361-380

  Clune, T C ^a   Elliott, J R ^a   Miesch, M S ^a   Toomre, J ^a   Glatzmaier, G A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

INTERPROCESSOR TRANSPOSES; LEGENDRE TRANSFORMS; SPECTRAL TRANSFORMS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032663336     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(99)00009-5     Document Type: Article

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