On the generic parallelisation of iterative solvers for the finite element method

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-69

  Blatt, Markus ^a   Bastian, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

C++; Domain decomposition; Generic programming; Iterative methods; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CESIUM; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BUILDING BLOCKES; CONSISTENCY MODEL; GENERIC PROGRAMMING; ITERATIVE SOLVERS; NONOVERLAPPING DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPARSE LINEAR SYSTEMS; TEMPLATE LIBRARIES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 56349089534     PISSN: 17427185     EISSN: 17427193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2008.021112     Document Type: Article

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