Design of a large scale discrete element soil model for high performance computing systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing

Volumn 1996-November, Issue , 1996, Pages

  Carrillo, Alex R ^a   Horner, David A ^a   Peters, John F ^a   West, John E ^a  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing; DEM; Discrete; Modeling; Parallel; Particle; Performance; Soil

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEFORMATION; HIGH SPEED NETWORKS;

COMPUTING; DISCRETE; DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELS; DISCRETE ELEMENTS; LARGE-SCALES; MODELING; PARALLEL; PARTICLE; PERFORMANCE; SOIL MODEL;

SOILS;

EID: 33749877446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SUPERC.1996.183552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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