Accelerating lattice boltzmann fluid flow simulations using graphics processors

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 550-557

  Bailey, Peter ^a   Myre, Joe ^b   Walsh, Stuart D C ^b   Lilja, David J ^a   Saar, Martin O ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; FLOATING POINTS; FLUID FLOW SIMULATION; GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS; GPU IMPLEMENTATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; GRAPHICS PROCESSOR; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; LATTICE-BOLTZMANN METHOD; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; SCIENTIFIC SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION PERFORMANCE;

DROP FORMATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FLOW OF FLUIDS; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 77951435761     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2009.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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