An MPI-based MoSST core dynamics model

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 170, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 46-51

  Jiang, Weiyuan ^a   Kuang, Weijia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical modeling; Parallel computing; Planetary dynamo

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CORE DYNAMICS; CORE-MANTLE INTERACTIONS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER; GEODYNAMO; LINUX PC; MASTER-SLAVE; MODEL SOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PLANETARY DYNAMO; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING;

DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHM; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GEODYNAMO; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARALLEL COMPUTING;

EID: 53249121014     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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