A flexible high-performance Lattice boltzmann GPU code for the simulations of fluid flows in complex geometries

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Bemaschi, Massimo ^a   Fatica, Massimiliano ^b   Melchionna, Simone ^c,d   Succi, Sauro ^a,e   Kaxiras, Efthimios ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b NVIDIA   (United States)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GPU; Lattice Boltzmann; MPI; Multi physics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; EFFICIENT SIMULATION; INDIRECT ADDRESSING; IRREGULAR DOMAINS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; MULTI-PHYSICS; SIMULATION SOFTWARE;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 73149115753     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1466     Document Type: Article

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