Parallel remeshing of unstructured volume grids for CFD applications

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1361-1379

  Tremel, Udo ^a   Sørensen, Kaare A ^a   Hitzel, Stephan ^a   Rieger, Herbert ^a   Hassan, Oubay ^b   Weatherill, Nigel P ^b  

^a AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFD applications; Parallel local remeshing; Unstructured tetrahedral grids

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MESH GENERATION; MESSAGE PASSING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MESSAGE PASSING PARADIGM; PARALLEL LOCAL REMESHING; TIME-ACCURATE SIMULATION; UNSTRUCTURED TETRAHEDRAL GRIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MESH GENERATION; MESSAGE PASSING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33847721373     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1195     Document Type: Article

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