Parallel explicit finite element solid dynamics with domain decomposition and message passing: Dual partitioning scalability

Computers and Structures

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 345-360

  Krysl, Petr ^a   Bittnar, Zdeněk ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

PARALLEL EXPLICIT FINITE ELEMENT SOLID DYNAMICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0035202643     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(00)00130-9     Document Type: Article

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