Parallel simulation of radiative heat transfer using an unstructured finite-volume method

Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-137

  Liu, J ^a   Shang, H M ^a   Chen, Y S ^a  

^a Engineering Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GEOMETRY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); ITERATIVE METHODS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHOD; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE LIBRARY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION; SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; SPATIAL DOMAIN METHOD;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0033190048     PISSN: 10407790     EISSN: 15210626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/104077999275686     Document Type: Article

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