High-resolution mesh convergenge properties and parallel efficiency of a spectral element atmospheric dynamical core

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 225-235

  Dennis, John ^a   Fournier, Aimé ^b   Spotz, William F ^c   St Cyr, Amik ^a   Taylor, Mark A ^c   Thomas, Stephen J ^a   Tufo, Henry ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Dynamical core; Mesh convergence; Parallel scalability; Spectral elements

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DYNAMICAL CORE; MESH CONVERGENCE; PARALLEL SCALABILITY; SPECTRAL ELEMENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 23844497385     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342005056108     Document Type: Article

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