A scalable parallel Poisson solver for three-dimensional problems with one periodic direction

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 525-538

  Gorobets, A ^a   Trias, F X ^a   Soria, M ^a   Oliva, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulation; Parallel Poisson solver; Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient; Schur complement method

Indexed keywords

2-D SYSTEMS; 3D SYSTEMS; BEOWULF CLUSTER; DIAGONALIZATIONS; DIFFERENTIALLY HEATED CAVITY; FOURIER; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MESH SIZE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PC CLUSTERS; POISSON SOLVERS; PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENT; PRECONDITIONERS; SCHUR COMPLEMENT; SCHUR COMPLEMENT METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; SUPERCOMPUTERS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD;

EID: 72149122356     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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