The design of a portable parallel frontal solver for chemical process engineering problems

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 11-12, 2001, Pages 1699-1709

  Scott, Jennifer A ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fortran 90; Frontal method; MPI; Parallel processing; Unsymmetric linear systems

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY;

PARALLEL FRONTAL SOLVER;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

CHEMICAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PARALLEL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0035890797     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(01)00731-1     Document Type: Article

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