First experience of compressible gas dynamics simulation on the Los Alamos roadrunner machine

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2160-2175

  Woodward, Paul R ^a   Jayaraj, Jagan ^a   Lin, Pei Hung ^a   Dai, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell processor; Computational fluid dynamics; Multicore computing

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; COMPRESSIBILITY OF GASES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GASES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CELL PROCESSOR; COMPRESSIBLE GAS DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MULTI-CORE COMPUTING; MULTI-CORE PROCESSING; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE;

GAS DYNAMICS;

EID: 73349130463     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1494     Document Type: Article

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