Performance enhancement strategies for multi-block overset grid CFD applications

Parallel Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 11-12 SPEC.ISS., 2003, Pages 1791-1810

  Djomehri, M Jahed ^a   Biswas, Rupak ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Load balancing; Multi block applications; Parallel performance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242574561     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2003.05.019     Document Type: Article

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