Numerical methods to improve the computing efficiency of discrete dislocation dynamics simulations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 417-429

  Shin, C S ^a   Fivel, M C ^b   Verdier, M ^c   Kwon, S C ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Dislocation dynamics; Domain decomposition; Message passing interfaces; Parallelization; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASTICITY;

COMPUTING EFFICIENCY; DISLOCATION DYNAMICS; DISLOCATION DYNAMICS SIMULATION; DISLOCATION SEGMENTS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MESSAGE-PASSING; PARALLELIZATIONS; SEGMENT INTERSECTIONS; SERIAL DISLOCATION;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 33645906918     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.10.025     Document Type: Article

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