The implementation of an aeronautical CFD flow code onto distributed memory parallel systems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 903-920

  Ierotheou, C S ^a   Forsey, C R ^b   Leatham, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b Aircraft Research Association Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Hybrid structured and unstructured grids; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; FLUID DYNAMICS; MEMORY; SIMULATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA STRUCTURES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

FULL APPROXIMATION STORAGE (FAS) METHOD; HYBRID STRUCTURED/UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SAUNA;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER TECHNIQUE; FLOW AROUND OBJECT; MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 0034175795     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(20000430)32:8<903::AID-FLD950>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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