Rapid aerodynamic performance prediction on a cluster of Graphics Processing Units

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Phillips, Everett H ^a   Zhang, Yao ^a   Davis, Roger L ^a   Owens, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; IMAGE CODING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS; COMPRESSIBLE EULER EQUATIONS; EIGHT NODE; EULER SOLVER; GPU-ACCELERATED; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; MULTI BLOCKS; PRICE RATIO;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 78549241947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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