Acceleration of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) on a reconfigurable co-processor

Computers and Structures

Volumn 82, Issue 20-21, 2004, Pages 1707-1718

  Schäfer, Benjamin Carrión ^a   Quigley, Steven F ^a   Chan, Andrew H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete Element Method (DEM); Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs); Hardware acceleration; Reconfigurable computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

HARDWARE ACCELERATION; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 18844466328     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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