Computational steering on distributed systems: Indoor comfort simulations as a case study of interactive CFD on supercomputers

International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 275-291

  Wenisch, Petra ^a   Van Treeck, Christoph ^a   Borrmann, Andrè ^a   Rank, Ernst ^a   Wenisch, Oliver ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaborative engineering; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational steering; Grid computing; High performance computing; Lattice Boltzmann method

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRID COMPUTING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL STEERING; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 34250657698     PISSN: 17445760     EISSN: 17445779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17445760601122183     Document Type: Article

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