Interactive large-scale soil modeling using distributed high performance computing environments

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-48

  Carrillo, Alex R ^a   West, John E ^a   Horner, David A ^a   Peters, John F ^a  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOIL MECHANICS; VISUALIZATION;

DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD (DEM); DISCRETE ELEMENT SOIL MODEL;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033102261     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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