Acceleration of a Navier-Stokes equation solver for unstructured grids using agglomeration multigrid and parallel processing

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 193, Issue 9-11, 2004, Pages 781-803

  Lambropoulos, N K ^a   Koubogiannis, D G ^a   Giannakoglou, K C ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agglomeration multigrid; Parallelization; Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes equations; Unstructured grids

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TURBULENT FLOW;

DISCRETIZATION METHODS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 1442338588     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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