A novel FDTD approach featuring two-level parallelization on PC cluster

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 80, Issue , 2008, Pages 393-408

  Liu, Y ^a   Liang, Z ^a   Yang, Z Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION; PARALLELIZATION;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 40449115381     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER07120703     Document Type: Article

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