Parallel computing of multi-scale continental deformation in the Western United States: Preliminary results

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 35-51

  Liu, Mian ^a   Yang, Youqing ^a   Li, Qingsong ^b   Zhang, Huai ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics; Cyberinfrastructure; Finite elements; Parallel computing; San Andreas Fault; Western US

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LITHOLOGY; MESH GENERATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION;

TECTONICS;

ALGORITHM; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODYNAMICS; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; RUPTURE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547902843     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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