Adaptive finite element analysis on a parallel and distributed environment

Parallel Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1413-1434

  Annamalai, V ^a   Krishnamoorthy, C S ^a   Kamakoti, V ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (AFEA); DOMAIN PARTITIONING TECHNIQUES; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE (MPI); PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE (PVM);

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033322401     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(99)00061-7     Document Type: Article

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