Efficient helicopter aerodynamic and aeroacoustic predictions on parallel computers

34th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  Wissink, Andrew M ^a   Lyrintzis, Anastasios S ^b   Strawn, Roger C ^c   Oliker, Leonid ^c   Biswas, Rupak ^c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; AEROACOUSTICS; AERODYNAMICS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL AEROACOUSTICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; HELICOPTERS; MESSAGE PASSING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

ACOUSTIC PRESSURES; CODE MODIFICATIONS; PARALLEL EXECUTIONS; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PARALLEL PERFORMANCE; PARALLEL STRATEGIES; PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0040662974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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