Parallel performance of a lattice-Boltzmann/finite element cellular blood flow solver on the IBM Blue Gene/P architecture

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1013-1020

  Clausen, Jonathan R ^a   Reasor Jr , Daniel A ^a   Aidun, Cyrus K ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue Gene P; High performance computing; Lattice Boltzmann; Suspension flows

Indexed keywords

ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY; BLOOD FLOW; CODE STRUCTURE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HYBRID LATTICE; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PARALLEL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PROCESSOR CORES; SUSPENSION FLOWS;

BLOOD; FLOW SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

PARALLEL FLOW;

EID: 77950518158     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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