Performance comparisons of parallel implicit solvers for hypersonic flow computations on unstructured meshes

Collection of Technical Papers - 18th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1616-1631

  Nompelis, Ioannis ^a,b   Wan, Tian ^a,b   Candler, Graham V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BLUNT-BODY FLOW; CPU TIME; GRID STRETCHING; KRYLOV METHODS;

HYPERSONIC FLOW;

EID: 35748939711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-4334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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