Towards an efficient and scalable discontinuous galerkin atmospheric model

Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Dennis, J M ^a   Levy, M ^c   Nair, R D ^a   Tufo, H M ^a,b   Voran, T ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Climate and atmospheric modeling; Discontinuous Galerkin method; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE AND ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GALERKIN METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746303619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2005.438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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