Implementation of the domain decomposition method-based parallel finite element method in geotechnical engineering

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Zhang, Y L ^a   Feng, Xia Ting ^a   Jiang, A N ^b   Ru, Z L ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Additive Schwarz method; Conjugate gradient method; Domain decomposition method; Parallel finite element method; PC cluster; Preconditioning

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; VECTORS;

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION; ETHERNET; HYDROPOWER PLANTS; MEMORY SYSTEMS;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; PARALLEL COMPUTING; SOFTWARE; UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 3042823252     PISSN: 13651609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2004.03.075     Document Type: Article

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