Automotive design applications of fluid flow simulation on parallel computing platforms

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 184, Issue 2-4, 2000, Pages 449-466

  Rifai, Steven M ^a   Buell, Jeffrey C ^a   Johan, Zdeněk ^a   Hughes, Thomas J R ^a  

^a Centric Engineering Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARBITRARY LANGRARIAN-EULERIAN METHOD; AUTOMATIC MESH GENERATION; MULTIPHYSICS ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE SCALABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLUID FLOW;

EID: 0034647030     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00239-X     Document Type: Article

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