A Gluing Algorithm for Distributed Simulation of Multibody Systems

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 159-188

  Wang, Jinzhong ^a   Ma, Zheng Dong ^a   Hulbert, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed simulation; Gluing algorithm; Multibody system simulation; Structural dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STIFFNESS MATRIX; VECTORS;

DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION; GLUING ALGORITHMS; MULTIBODY SYSTEM SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 1442332293     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:nody.0000014558.70434.b0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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