FoSSI: The family of simplified solver interfaces for the rapid development of parallel numerical atmosphere and ocean models

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 185-191

  Frickenhaus, Stephan ^a,b   Hiller, Wolfgang ^b   Best, Meike ^b  

^a BremHLR   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element; Iterative solvers; Sparse parallel solvers; User interface

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VECTORS;

CODE DEVELOPMENT; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION; FREE SOLVER SOFTWARE PACKAGES; ITERATIVE SOLVERS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 14744283845     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2004.06.004     Document Type: Article

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