Porting of an edge-based CFD solver to GPUs

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Corrigan, Andrew ^a   Camelli, Fernando ^a   Löhner, Rainald ^a   Mut, Fernando ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

AUTOMATED TRANSLATION; CFD SOLVER; CUDA FORTRANS; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; FINITE ELEMENT CODES; FORTRAN 77; HUMAN ERRORS; SHARED-MEMORY PARALLELS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 78649974592     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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