Large calculation of the flow over a hypersonic vehicle using a GPU

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 10148-10161

  Elsen, Erich ^a   LeGresley, Patrick ^a   Darve, Eric ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Brook; Compressible flow; Euler equations; GPU; Stream processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EULER EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMETRY; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; HYPERSONIC VEHICLES; LINEAR ALGEBRA; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

BROOK; COMPUTING PERFORMANCE; EULER'S EQUATION; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTING; NAVIER STOKES; NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA; PEAK PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL SIMULATION; STANFORD UNIVERSITY; STREAM PROCESSING;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 54249162842     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.08.023     Document Type: Article

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