Large-scale parallel flow analysis based on free mesh method: A virtually meshless method

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 174, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 419-431

  Shirazaki, M ^a   Yagawa, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SET THEORY; VECTORS; VISCOUS FLOW;

FREE MESH METHOD; HASH SORTING METHOD; NODAL DENSITY CONTROL;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW MODELING;

EID: 0033602756     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(98)00307-7     Document Type: Article

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